Swiss traveler Johann Ludwig Burckhardt visited Orman in 1810 and noted that it was a deserted site. However, by the 1870s, the village was a large village settled by the Druze, who had migrated from Mount Lebanon. Urman was a village dominated by the Bani al-Atrash clan and in the 1870s, its sheikhs (chieftains) were Najm al-Atrash and his son Ibrahim. In the 1880s, migrants from the village of Jarmaq in the Galilee settled in Urman. They came to be known as the al-Jarmaqani family after their ancestral village. In 1889-1890, Urman was one of the four villages in the southern Jabal al-Arab mountainous region whose peasants rebelled against the al-Atrash sheikhs during the Ammiyya revolt. The village's rebel leader was Ibrahim al-Jarmaqani. The village was restored to al-Atrash control, but many of its peasant inhabitants came to become landowners independent from the al-Atrash sheikhs.