 Incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with the rest of Palestine, Peki'in appeared in the 1596 tax registers as being in the "Nahiya" of Akka of the "Liwa" of Safad.It had a population of 77 households and 7 bachelors who were all Muslims, in addition to 79 Jewish households.The villagers paid taxes on occasional revenues, goats and/or beehives, a press for olives or grapes, and jizya.