10 Facts About Shihab dynasty

Shihab dynasty was 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.

The Shihab dynasty 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 dynasty emirate.

In 1172, during the reign of the Ayyubid sultan Saladin, the Banu Shihab dynasty migrated westward from their home village of Shahba in Jabal Hauran to Wadi al-Taym, a plain at the foot of Mount Hermon .

Shihab dynasty held the fort of Hasbaya and later that year attacked his brother Ali in the latter's fort of Rashaya.

In 1650, the Ma'n and Shihab dynasty clans defeated a mercenary army of the Druze emir Ali Alam al-Din .

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The following year, Emir Ahmad and his Shihab dynasty allies mobilized their forces in Wadi al-Taym and conquered Chouf, forcing Musa Alam al-Din to flee to Sidon.

The Shihab dynasty emir was formally at the military service of the Ottoman authorities and required to mobilize forces upon request.

Shihab dynasty captured the rebel Mushrif ibn Ali al-Saghir, sheikh of the Shia Muslim Wa'il clan of Bishara in Jabal Amil, and delivered him and his partisans to the governor of Sidon, who requested Emir Bashir's assistance in the matter.

Shihab dynasty secured the allegiance of the Shia Muslim Munkir and Sa'ab clans to the Qaysi faction.

Shihab dynasty accomplished this by having the Talhuq clan raid the city and demonstrate the ineffectiveness of its deputy governor.