Natifah

Natifah is a village in Jordan approximately 2 km south-west of Irbid.

[1] In 1596 it appeared in the Ottoman tax registers named as Natifa, situated in the nahiya (subdistrict) of Bani al-Asar, part of the Sanjak of Hawran.

The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products; including wheat, barley, summer crops, vineyards/fruit trees, goats and bee-hives.

[2] In 1838 Natifah's inhabitants were predominantly Sunni Muslims.

[3] The Jordanian census of 1961 found 451 inhabitants in Natifa.