This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Ein 'Arik (Arabic: عين عريك) is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, located 7 kilometers west of Ramallah in the central West Bank.

[6][7][8] Southwest of Ein 'Arik is Khirbet al-Hafi, where Byzantine pottery has been found, together with glass fragments and ancient agricultural terraces.

[9][10] In the Crusader era Ein 'Arik was known as Bayt Arif, and already by the mid-eleventh century the village, together with another just north of Jerusalem, belonged to the Jacobite Church.

[5] According to Conder and Kitchener, Ein 'Arik was mentioned in Marino Sanuto's Map of the Holy Land as Arecha.

The place is surrounded with olives, and there are lemons and other trees round the water in a thick grove.

[24] Of this, 2,203 were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 1,168 for cereals,[25] while 32 dunams were classified as built-up areas.

[citation needed] Ein 'Arik is home to a shrine locally known as A-Sheikh Hussein (Arabic: الشيخ حسين).

It is considered the tomb of a local saint, who also gave his name to the village's mosque which was built on the remains of an earlier church.

The saint's tomb sanctifies a nearby spring known as 'Ein al-Foqa whose waters are believed to cure urinary retention (but only if consumed before the stars appear).

Uri suggested that this site may be associated with A-Sheikh Hussein Ibn Sa'id a-Samkhan, who led the Qays tribes in Samaria at the time of the Egyptian conquest of the Levant in the early 19th century.