Along with Al Hashimiyya and Halawah, it makes up the Ash Shefa Municipality.

It has a large Christian population and contains both a Catholic and an Eastern Orthodox church.

The village is on a slight hill overlooking the windswept olive groves of Ajloun, in the valley of the Yarmuk River and is an important site in early Christianity.

The village also boasts Tel Mar Elias, one of the largest Byzantine churches in Jordan and an ancient site of pilgrimage, worship and interfaith coexistence.

They paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on various agricultural products, including wheat, barley, olive trees/vineyards/fruit trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 20,000 akçe.