Natifah is a village in Jordan approximately 2 km south-west of Irbid. Satellite Views.net, Natifah History 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. It had 17 households and 9 bachelors; all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products; including wheat, barley, summer crops, vineyards/fruit trees, goats and bee-hives. The total tax was 5,500 akçe.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 206
In 1838 Natifah's inhabitants were predominantly Sunni Muslims.Smith, in Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 164
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 451 inhabitants in Natifa.Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 19
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