Battle between the Qaysi and Yamani tribo-political factions (1711)
Battle of Ain Dara
Part of the Qays–Yaman rivalry
Date
20 March 1711
Location
Ain Dara, Sidon Eyalet, Ottoman Empire
Result
Qaysi victory
Qaysi Christians consolidate political domination over Mount Lebanon
Yamani Druze exodus to Jabal al-Druze
Belligerents
Qaysi faction
Shihab dynasty
Jumblatt clan of Chouf
Talhuq clan of Gharb
Nakad clan of Manasif
Imad clan of Arqub
Abd al-Malik clan of Jurd
Abu'l Lama clan of Matn
Khazen clan of Keserwan
Supported by:
Harfush clan
Yamani faction
Alam al-Din clan
Arslan clan of Gharb
Sawaf clan of Matn
Supported by:
Ottoman governors of Sidon and Damascus
Commanders and leaders
Emir Haydar Shihab Sheikh Ali Jumblatt Muhammad Talhuq Sheikh Ali Abi Nakad Sayyid Ahmad Imad Janbulat Abd al-Malik Khazen al-Khazen Qabalan al-Qadi al-Tanukhi
Mahmoud Abu Harmoush (POW) Alam al-Din emirs † Bashir Pasha al-Matarji Nasuh Pasha Aydinli
Casualties and losses
N/A
Heavy
The Battle of Ain Dara occurred in the village of Ain Dara, in Mount Lebanon in 1711, between the Qaysi and Yamani, two rival tribo-political factions.[1]
The Qays were led by Emir Haydar of the Shihab dynasty and consisted of the Druze clans of Jumblatt, Talhuq, Imad and Abd al-Malik and the Maronite clan of Khazen. The Yamani faction was led by Mahmoud Abu Harmoush and consisted of the Druze Alam al-Din, Arslan and Sawaf clans. The Yamani faction also had backing from the Ottoman provincial authorities of Sidon and Damascus.
The battle ended in a rout of the Yamani faction and resulted in the consolidation of Qaysi political and fiscal domination over Mount Lebanon.[1] The battle's outcome also precipitated a mass migration of pro-Yamani Druze nobility and peasants from Mount Lebanon to the eastern Hauran, in a mountainous area today known as Jabal al-Druze, solidifying the Maronite Christian population as the predominant populace in Mount Lebanon.[1]
^ abcNajem, Tom; Amore, Roy C.; Abu Khalil, As'ad (2021). Historical Dictionary of Lebanon. Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East (2nd ed.). Lanham Boulder New York London: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 50. ISBN 978-1-5381-2043-9.
and 23 Related for: Battle of Ain Dara information
of time, the manhood of the Lebanon and ended in the decisive battleofAinDara in 1711, which resulted in the utter defeat of the Yemenite party. Many...
latter at the BattleofAinDara in 1711. The Sawwafs were based in the village of Chbaniyeh in the Matn area of Mount Lebanon, east of Beirut. They were...
of a living being begins a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death. In most beliefs involving reincarnation, the soul of...
lubnān) are an ethnoreligious group constituting about 5.2 percent of the population of Lebanon. They follow the Druze faith, which is an esoteric Abrahamic...
make up about 3.2 percent of the population of Syria (as of 2010), or approximately 700,000 persons, including residents of the Golan Heights. The Druzites...
command of his father Khattar Imad. Some 3,000 Christian fighters, predominantly from Zahle, met Khattar's forces near AinDara where a major battle took...
say Shuʿayb was a great-grandson of Abraham: Shuʿayb is believed to have been the son of Mikil, son of Midian, son of Abraham. That would render impossible...
for the Palace of Mahmoud Harmouche who governed Mount Lebanon before he was defeated by Emir Haidar Chehab in the BattleofAinDara Semqaniyeh, Localiban...
citizens of Israel. In 2019, there were 143,000 Druze people living within Israel and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, comprising 1.6% of the total...
Chouf region until the BattleofAinDara in 1711 CE, were "sui iuris" sheikhs. After the Ottoman rule and the implementation of the Iltizam system, the...
Epistles of Wisdom (Arabic: رَسَائِل ٱلْحِكْمَة, romanized: Rasāʾil al-Ḥikma) is a corpus of sacred texts and pastoral letters by teachers of the Druze...
camp at AinDara to preempt the arrival of Ottoman reinforcements and being subsequently attacked from different directions. In the ensuing battle, the Qaysi...
as a part of his family. In meetings with the other companions, he was often referred to by the kunya Abu ʿAbdullah. Prior to the Battleof the Trench...
al-Darzi's house and, after a brief battle with his followers who had barricaded themselves there, stormed it. Some forty of al-Darzi's supporters were killed...
الدروز, French: Djebel Druze) was an autonomous state in the French Mandate of Syria from 1921 to 1936, designed to function as a government for the local...
al-Matn, Emir Haydar launched a preemptive assault against AinDara. In the ensuing BattleofAinDara, the Yamani forces were routed, the Alam al-Din sheikhs...
in the BattleofAinDara, and establish himself as sole emir of the Shuf. curiously not addressed in H. A. al-Shihabi or any other chronicles of the period...
arrive, Haydar defeated his local rivals at the BattleofAinDara and seized the former Mann capital of Deir el Qamar. Through intermarriage, Haydar effected...
name in the Quran. He is described in Surah Al-Kahf, as a righteous servant of God possessing great wisdom or mystic knowledge. In various Islamic and non-Islamic...
part of the ships' graveyard on Quail Island, New Zealand BattleofAin Darra, fought at AinDara, Lebanon Darra Khaibar, a Pakistani film Dara (disambiguation)...
only martyr of the battle, Saeed Fakhreddine (?-November 11, 1943), and many more men from Ain Anoub. Saeed Fakhreddine climbed on top of the tank and dropped...