Hibran was noted in the 1596 Ottomancensus under the name of Hubran an-Nasara, being located in the nahiya of Bani Nasiyya in the Liwa of Hawran. It had a population of 23 households and 14 bachelors; all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 40% on various agricultural products, including wheat (=1500 akçe), barley (900), summer crops (900), goats and beehives (100); a total of 3,400 akçe.[2]
According to the historian Kais Firro, Hibran was one of twenty-eight villages in the Hauran settled by Druze before 1812;[4] in 1838 Hibran was noted as Druse village by Eli Smith.[5]
The Druze chieftain Ismail al-Atrash encouraged further Druze migration to Hibran, among a number of other Hauran villages, from Mount Lebanon in the 1850s.[6]
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