Byzantine period

Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here,^[5] and it has been suggested that this was the place Fondeka, once inhabited by Samaritans.^[6][7]

Crusader period

During the Crusader period the village was inhabited by Muslims, according to the historian Diya al-Din al-Maqdisi. A Hanbali scholar named Ahmad ibn Abd al-Daim al-Maqaddasi al-Hanbali was born in the village in 575 AH/1180 CE, dying there in 668 AH/March 1270 CE.^[8][9] Followers of the Hanbali scholar Ibn Qudamah (1146/47-1223) also lived in the village,^[10] and during this period al-Funduq was home to a well-known Muslim sheikh named Abd Allah.^[11][12]

Ottoman period

The place appeared in 1596 Ottoman tax registers as Funduq, being in the Nahiya of Bani Sa'b of the Liwa of Nablus. It had a population of 86 households, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 33.3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olives, goats and beehives, and a press for olives or grapes, in addition to occasional revenues and a fixed sum for people of the Nablus area; a total of 10,500 akçe.^[13]

A map from Napoleon's invasion of 1799 by Pierre Jacotin named it Fondouk, as a village by the road from Jaffa to Nablus.^[14]

In 1838 Robinson noted el-Funduk as a village in Beni Sa'ab district, west of Nablus.^[15]

In 1870 Victor Guérin noted El-Fondouk from Fara'ata, but did not visit it.^[16]

In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya (sub-district) of Bani Sa'b.^[17]

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described the village as "a small poor village by the main road, with wells to the north and two sacred places; it stands on high ground," and located in the Beni Sab district.^[7]

British Mandate

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Funduq had a population of 66 inhabitants, all Muslims,^[18] increasing in the 1931 census to 72 Muslims, with 21 houses.^[19]

In the 1945 census El Funduq had a population was 100 Muslims,^[20] with 1,619 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.^[21] Of this, 43 dunams were for plantations or irrigated land, 1,026 for cereals,^[22] while 14 dunams were built-up (urban) land.^[23]

Jordanian period

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Al-Funduq came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 137 inhabitants in Al-Funduq.^[24]

Post-1967

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Al-Funduq has been under Israeli occupation.

After the 1995 accords, 4.8% of Jinsafut and Al-Funduq land was classified as Area B, the remaining 95.2% as Area C.^[25]

Local origins

Al-Funduq's residents originally came from Jab'it, near Duma. The village also absorbed refugees from Kafr Qara.^[26]