The Shihab dynasty (alternatively spelled Chehab; Arabic: الشهابيون, ALA-LC: al-Shihābiyūn) is an Arab family whose members served as the paramount tax farmers and local chiefs of Mount Lebanon from the early 18th to mid-19th century, during Ottoman rule. Their reign began in 1697 after the death of the last Ma'nid chief. The family centralized control over Mount Lebanon, destroying the feudal power of the mostly Druze lords and cultivating the Maronite clergy as an alternative power base of the emirate. The Shihab family allied with Muhammad Ali of Egypt during his occupation of Syria, but was deposed in 1840 when the Egyptians were driven out by an Ottoman-European alliance, leading soon after to the dissolution of the Shihab emirate. Despite losing territorial control, the family remains influential in modern Lebanon, with some members having reached high political office.
The Shihabdynasty (alternatively spelled Chehab; Arabic: الشهابيون, ALA-LC: al-Shihābiyūn) is an Arab family whose members served as the paramount tax...
Maan and Shihab government of different parts of Mount Lebanon, between 1667 and 1841, was an Ottoman iltizam, or tax farm, rather than a dynastic principality...
centuries, a number of the Druze embraced Christianity, such as some of Shihabdynasty members, as well as the Abi-Lamma clan. The Maronite Catholics and the...
structure, made up of fiefdoms, that allowed Bashir II, an emir from the Shihabdynasty in the Druze and Maronite districts of Mount Lebanon, to gain lordship...
centuries, a number of Druze embraced Christianity, such as some of Shihabdynasty members, as well as the Abi-Lamma clan. Contact between Christian communities...
Lebanon. He was the son of Qasim ibn Umar ibn Haydar ibn Husayn Shihab of the Shihabdynasty, which had been elected to the super tax farm of Mount Lebanon...
of the Shihabdynasty to govern Mount Lebanon. Yusuf Shihab was the son of Emir Mulhim. They were the leaders of the Shihabdynasty. The Shihabs were descendants...
rival tribo-political factions. The Qays were led by Emir Haydar of the Shihabdynasty and consisted of the Druze clans of Jumblatt, Talhuq, Imad and Abd al-Malik...
the Ottoman province of Sidon. They belonged to the Shihabdynasty which succeeded the Ma'an dynasty as the rulers of Mount Lebanon. After Haydar died in...
After the Shihabdynasty converted to Christianity, the Druze lost most of their political and feudal powers. On 3 September 1840, Bashir Shihab III, a distant...
The Burid dynasty was a Sunni Muslim dynasty of Oghuz Turkic origin which ruled over the Emirate of Damascus in the early 12th century, as subjects of...
were based in the Matn area and historically opposed the Ma'n dynasty and Shihabdynasty. They were eliminated by the latter at the Battle of Ain Dara...
Shihab emir or a member of the rival Alam al-Din clan. The Qaysi Druze were motivated to appoint the Shihabs because the Wadi al-Taym-based Shihabs were...
centuries a number of the Druze embraced Christianity, such as some of Shihabdynasty members, as well as the Abi-Lamma clan. Contact between Christians (members...
al-wadih bi-l-haqq (c. 1010), a critique of Islam Chehab family – refer to Shihabdynasty under "S" in same section Constantine the African – Baghdad-educated...
Beiteddine Festival and the Beiteddine Palace Museum. Emir Bashir II of the Shihabdynasty, who later became the ruler of the Mount Lebanon Emirate, built the...
surname. Bashir may refer to: Bashir I, Lebanese emir of the Shihabdynasty Bashir Shihab II (1767–1850), Lebanese emir who ruled Lebanon Bashir III, ruler...
Sayyid Shihab bin Tariq bin Taimur Al Said (Arabic: شهاب بن طارق بن تيمور آل سعيد; born 5 March 1956) is a member of the Omani royal family and the Deputy...
world. A number of the Druze embraced Christianity, such as some of Shihabdynasty members, as well as the Abi-Lamma clan, During the nineteenth and twentieth...
under the control of the Shihabdynasty. The Shihabi emir, Bashir I, Haydar's uncle and the effective leader of the Shihabdynasty, launched a punitive campaign...
The Khalji or Khilji (Persian: خلجي) dynasty was the second dynasty which ruled the Delhi sultanate, covering large parts of the Indian subcontinent for...
Shihab-ud-din Omar (r. 1316) was the third Sultan of the Khalji Dynasty and fourteenth Sultan of Delhi Sultanate in India. After the death of his father...
alliance, which reached heights under the Sunni (and later Maronite) Shihabdynasty. The regression amplified in 1781 following the death of Nasif al-Nassar...
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