 The London-based Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) and other sources recorded that in the Mid-19th century the settlement was named after its then owner, the Ottoman top-diplomat and politician Mustafa Reşid Pasha, known best as the chief architect behind the regime's modernization reforms known as Tanzimat.There is an abundance of fresh water supplies in the area with the springs of Rashidieh itself and those of Ras al-Ain nearby.To its North Rashidieh borders the Tyre Coast Nature Reserve.