Al-Shuyukh
[4] French explorer Victor Guérin visited in 1863, and noted that the village was situated on a high rocky hill.[6][7] In 1883, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described it as a "well-built village standing high, and visible from Tekua."[8] In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, 'Al Shiukh had a population 792 inhabitants, all Muslims.[14] In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Ash-Shuyukh came under Jordanian rule It was annexed by Jordan in 1950.In 1986, Grossman wrote that the locals were landless, impoverished Dervishes, with some of them originating from the Ashkelon area.