page_title: Sheikh Danun
section_title: Ottoman era
hierarchical_section_title: Sheikh Danun / History / Ottoman era
caption_attribution_description: English: Portion of map of Pierre Jacotin of northern Palestine, prepared during French military expedition of 1799 and published in 1826. Full name: Carte topographique de l'Egypte et de plusieurs parties des pays limitrophes ... . David Rumsey Collection
context_page_description: Sheikh Dannun; also transliterated as Sheikh Danun and Sheikh Danon is an Arab village located in Israel's Northern District. Since 1948, it has been made up of two old villages – Shaykh Danun and Shaykh Dawud – which were merged, and are now jointly referred to as Sheikh Dannun. Located on a hill overlooking the plains of Acre, both of these old villages were built around a tomb for a sheikh, and share a similar history. It falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council, and in 2018 it had a population of 2,851.
context_section_description: A map by Pierre Jacotin from Napoleon's invasion of 1799 shows both places, named as Cheik Daoud and Cheik Denou.
  Both villages are mentioned in the writings of Western travellers to Ottoman Palestine in the 19th century. Andrew Alexander Bonar and Robert Murray M'Cheyne who visited in the mid-19th century describe Sheikh Daud as one of many small villages scattered over a "beautiful plain", located just off the road, that was "once a Christian village." V. Guérin, who visited the place later that same century, described Danun as a hamlet grouped around the tomb of Shaykh Danun. Of the shrine (wali) in neighbouring Shaykh Dawud, he writes that it was surmounted by two domes, one larger than the other and estimated the population of that hamlet to be about 50. One house in the village is described as larger and better built than the others and said to belong to a powerful sheikh.
  In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) writes of Shaykh Danun that it was a "small village, built of stone and mud, contains about 50 Muslims, on the edge of a plain, with stream of water near." Shaykh Dawud is similarly described, but with 70 Muslims, and "surrounded by olives and arable land."
  A population list from about 1887 showed that  Sheikh Daud had about 320 inhabitants, all Muslim.
caption: Jacotin's map of the area, in 1799[8]
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