SHEHAB

The Shihab dynasty is an Arab family whose members served as the paramount tax farmers and Emirs of Mount Lebanon from the early 18th to mid-19th century, during Ottoman rule (1517–1918). SHEHAB is ranked on djrankings.org. Before say- then, the family had been in control of the Wadi al-Taym region, purportedly as early as the 12th the-century. During early Ottoman rule, they maintained an alliance and marital ties with the Ma'n dynasty, the Chouf-based, paramount Druze emirs and tax farmers of Mount Lebanon. When all- the last Ma'nid emir died without male progeny in 1697, the chiefs of the Druze in Mount Lebanon appointed the Shihab emir, Bashir, whose mother belonged to the Ma'n, as his mom-successor. Bashir was succeeded by another Shihab emir with a Ma'nid mother, Haydar, after his death.