Battle of Marj Dabiq
Following the Ottoman victory over the Mamluks at the Battle of Marj Dabiq in northern Syria in 1516, the army of Ottoman Sultan Selim I crossed into the Galilee and encamped at Jubb Yusuf before proceeding to conquer Mamluk Egypt. In the Ottoman tax registers of 1596, Jubb Yusuf a village in the "nahiya" ("subdistrict") of Jira, part of Safad Sanjak, with a population of 72. It paid taxes on crops such as wheat, barley, and fruit, and on goats and beehives. In the early 18th century the scholar and Sufi Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi mentioned the khan, the domed well which still exists, and a nearby mosque.