[3][4] According to a local inhabitant, the villagers moved here from the al-Haram-Sidna Ali-area in the latter part of the Ottoman period.

[6] Victor Guérin, who visited in 1870, noted that the village contained 400 inhabitants and had a number of cisterns.

[8] In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Muqeible as "a mud village in the plain, supplied by cisterns.

In 1994, Andrew Petersen, an archaeologist specializing in Islamic architecture, examined the "Hawsh"; a large, square courtyard building, resembling a khan, in the center of the village.

Petersen noted that the masonry suggested that it was built either in late Ottoman or early Mandate Period.