An-Najih
An-Najih is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Izraa District in the Daraa Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, An-Najih had a population of 603 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslims.
History
In 1596 it appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as Nujaym . part of the nahiya of Bani Kilab in Hauran Sanjak. It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 25 households and 14 bachelors. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 40% on wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and/or beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues" ; a total of 7,650 akçe. Half of the revenue went to a waqf.In 1838, En-Nujeih was noted as having Muslim inhabitants, and situated "in the Luhf, west of the Lejah".