Mansur Shihab (Arabic: منصور الشهابي) was the Emir of Mount Lebanon between 1754 and 1770. He and his brother Ahmad took the reins of power from their ailing brother Mulhim Shihab and ruled jointly until Mansur became the sole emir after winning a power struggle with Ahmad in 1763. Mansur aligned himself with Zahir al-Umar and Ali Bey, the autonomous rulers of Galilee and Egypt, respectively, in their rebellion against the Ottomans. Mansur was subsequently forced by the Druze sheikhs of Mount Lebanon to step down in favor his nephew Yusuf Shihab after Zahir and Ali Bey were defeated in 1770.
MansurShihab (Arabic: منصور الشهابي) was the Emir of Mount Lebanon between 1754 and 1770. He and his brother Ahmad took the reins of power from their...
by the Shihab family. The Shihab Emirs: Bashir I Shihab (1697–1706) Haydar Shihab (1706–1729) Milhim Shihab (1729–1754) Ahmad and MansurShihab (1754–1763)...
confiscate the rifle stockpiles of Qasim Shihab, identified by the Shihab family histories as Qasim ibn Mulhim ibn Mansur, a great-grandson of the above-mentioned...
of the Shihab dynasty to govern Mount Lebanon. Yusuf Shihab was the son of Emir Mulhim. They were the leaders of the Shihab dynasty. The Shihabs were descendants...
married to Bashir's son Qasim, Shafkizar was married to Bashir's kinsmen MansurShihab of Wadi Shahrour and Maryam was married to a certain Agha Nahra al-Bishi'lani...
Majid Daryabadi Abdul Mannan Wazirabadi Abdullah Yusuf Ali Abdurrahman Shihab Abu Abd al-Rahman Ibn Aqil al-Zahiri Abu al-Barakat al-Nasafi Abu al-Futuh...
affairs and been patronized by the Hamade sheikhs, the Shihab clan's erstwhile allies. In 1770, Emir Mansur resigned in favor of Emir Yusuf after being compelled...
Darwish Pasha's troops, backed by the Druze Yazbaki faction and Emir MansurShihab II assembled at Mezzeh outside of Damascus, where the two sides confronted...
along with those of Qurqumaz of the Ma'n dynasty, Mansur of the Assaf dynasty and Qasim of the Shihab dynasty. During the early 17th century, the Sawwafs...
thoroughly defeated by Saadian forces. In the wake of this victory, Ahmad al-Mansur became sultan and presided over the apogee of Saadian power. In the later...
Damascus Sanjak of Damascus Eyalet. Together with a local sheikh named Ibn Shihab, Mansur and 3,000 of his men looted several villages in the nahiya of Acre in...
affairs and been patronized by the Hamade sheikhs, the Shihab clan's erstwhile allies. In 1770, Emir Mansur resigned in favor of Emir Yusuf after being compelled...
Asma Bint Shihab al-Sulayhiyya (Arabic: أسماء بنت شهاب الصليحي) (died 1087) was the queen and co-ruler of Yemen in co-regency with her cousin and spouse...
of Ain Dara. That year, members of the Shihab clan settled in Ghazir, which became a refuge for Emir Yusuf Shihab in 1778 when his tax farms in the Chouf...
1367–1376 Al-Zahir Majd al-Din 'Isā, son of Dāwūd II, 1376–1407 Al-Salih Şhihab al-Din Ahmad, son of Al-Zahir Majd al-Din 'Isā, 1407–1409. Mardin was conquered...
by his brother Emir Yusuf Shihab. In the mid-1820s, the Ottoman wali of Damascus, Darwish Pasha, defeated Emir Bashir Shihab II and proceeded to demolish...
with Shihab. When the latter could not pay the full amount promised to the Russians, Kozhukhov threatened to kill Mansur, his Druze hostage. Shihab managed...
Jughril to capture Mecca from Sharif Rajih ibn Qatadah, an ally of Sultan al-Mansur Umar of Yemen. Jughril captured the city in Ramadan 632 AH (May/June 1235)...
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