[citation needed] It is a religiously-mixed village of Arabs, with a Muslim majority, along with sizable Druze and Arab-Christian minorities.

[1] Abu Snan is an ancient village site, where old dressed stones have been reused in modern houses.

The villagers paid taxes on wheat, barley, olive trees, sesame, cotton, goats and beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues"; a total of 7,600 akçe.

[9] A map by Pierre Jacotin from Napoleon's invasion of 1799 showed the place, named as Abou Senan.

[10] When French explorer Victor Guérin visited the village in 1875, he estimated the population of Abu Snan to be 400, of whom 260 were Druzes and 140 Greek Orthodox Christians.

[11] Guérin also wrote that based on the rock-cut cisterns and old cut-stones incorporated in the buildings, it was an ancient place.