[2] In 1596, it was named as a village, Ishur, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Tibnin under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 48 households, all Muslim.

He went on to found a dynasty of Shiite scholars, who would play a key-role in the development of Jabal Amel (modern-day Southern Lebanon) up to today.

However, Sayed Salih was persecuted during the campaigns of the Ottoman governor of Sidon, Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar, who had the Shiite population decimated in brutal purges.

[5] In the first half of the 19th century the Shiite notable Mahmoud Mazyad built a mill on the bank of the Litani River: In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as: "A large village with some good houses, containing about 600 Metawileh; it is situated on a hill, and has a well and cisterns in it.

"[6] Soon after the French colonial rulers proclaimed the new State of Greater Lebanon under the guardianship of the League of Nations represented by France on the first of September 1920, French soldiers razed the village residence of Tyre's Imam Abd al-Husayn Sharaf al-Din al-Musawi in Shehour by setting fire to it.