 In 1517, the village was included in the Ottoman empire with the rest of Palestine, and in the 1596 tax-records it appeared as "Farha", located in the "Nahiya" of Jabal Quba, part of Nablus Sanjak.The population was 17 households, all Muslim.They paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues and a fixed tax for people of Nablus area; a total of 2,800 akçe.