Mulhim ibn Yunus Ma'n was the paramount Druze emir of Mount Lebanon and head of the Ma'n dynasty after succeeding his uncle Fakhr al-Din II in 1633.
16 Facts About Mulhim Ma'n
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Mulhim Ma'n held onto the tax farms of southern Mount Lebanon until his death in 1658, after falling ill attempting to collect taxes in Safed.
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Mulhim Ma'n remained on good terms with the authorities throughout most of his career.
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Mulhim Ma'n assaulted Alam al-Din and his forces at a place called Majdel Meouch, forcing their flight to Damascus.
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Mulhim Ma'n's activities prompted the Ottomans to execute Fakhr al-Din in 1635, according to the 17th-century Maronite patriarch and historian Istifan al-Duwayhi.
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Mulhim Ma'n led an ambush against them in the village of Ansar where some 1,600 Shia Muslims were killed.
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Mulhim Ma'n had backing of the majority of the Druze of Mount Lebanon.
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Mulhim Ma'n installed his confederate Abu Nawfal al-Khazen, a Maronite chief, to run the subdistrict on his behalf.
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In 1651 Mulhim Ma'n was appointed zabit of Akkar, in the far north of Mount Lebanon.
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Four years later, to counter Alam al-Din's efforts to turn the imperial government against him, Mulhim Ma'n sent his subordinate Mehmed Agha Qahveji Zade with a large bribe to Grand Vizier Murad Pasha.
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Together with his Druze and Maronite confederates, including his uncle's former assistants, the Khazens, Mulhim reestablished Ma'nid control over the core area of Fakhr al-Din's former domain, namely the combined tax farms of the Chouf, Gharb, Jurd, Matn and Keserwan.
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Except for his confrontation with Mustafa Pasha in 1642, Mulhim Ma'n "was fully obedient to the sultanate", according to the contemporary historian Muhammad al-Muhibbi, and did not rebel against Ottoman authority, a view shared by the modern historian Abdul-Rahim Abu-Husayn.
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Correspondences between the Tuscans and Maronite clergymen and notables commended Mulhim for safeguarding the Maronite Church and its followers, a Ma'nid policy begun by Fakhr al-Din II.
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Ahmad's son Mulhim Ma'n had died young in 1680 and so Ahmad left no male heir.
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Mulhim Ma'n built the Khan al-Dabbagha caravanserai in the commercial center of Sidon's port at an undetermined date during his career.
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Mulhim Ma'n is credited by Laurent d'Arvieux, a 17th-century French diplomat and traveler, for building the city's Barrani Mosque.