 The modern historian Oren Yiftachel, writing in the 1990s, noted that Majd al-Krum was "founded centuries ago by Muslim Arabs".A map from Napoleon's invasion of 1799 by Pierre Jacotin showed the place, named as "El Megd El Kouroum".In 1838, Majd al-Krum was noted as a Muslim village in the Shaghur subdistrict, which was located between Safad, Acca and Tiberias.