Zahir al-Umar al-Zaydani, alternatively spelled Daher al-Omar or Dahir al-Umar (Arabic: ظاهر العمر الزيداني, romanized: Ẓāhir al-ʿUmar az-Zaydānī, 1689/90...
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the Galilee. They were best known after one of their sheikhs (chiefs) Zahir al-Umar, who, through his tax farms, economic monopolies, popular support, and...
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Fakhr ad-Dīn II granted them permission to do so. In the 18th century, Zahir al-Umar transformed Nazareth into a large town by encouraging immigration to...
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appointed to the post by his father, Zahir al-Umar, the virtually autonomous ruler of northern Palestine. He was Zahir's eldest son and generally known to...
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Lebanon. Following Emir Mansour's death, Umar succeeded him as sanjak-bey. Umar was the father of Zahir al-Umar. Joudah 1987, pp. 20-21. Harris 2012, p...
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Sha'ab, Israel (section Mosque of Zahir al-Umar)
tradition, the village started to flourish under anti-Ottoman rebel Zahir al-Umar (c. 1768). In 1859, the population was estimated to be 1,500. Some were...
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Palestinian emir Zahir al-Umar - conquered large parts of Ottoman Syria (1771). Having taken Damascus (1772) from its Ottoman governor Uthman Pasha al-Kurji, Abu...
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on 2 September 1771, the rebel forces of Zahir al-Umar and Nasif al-Nassar routed the army of Uthman Pasha al-Kurji, the Ottoman governor of Damascus,...
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Zahir al-Umar and leading shaykh of lower Galilee. It is also known that there was a castle in the village at least as early as 1740. After Zahir al-Umar's...
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the Mughal dynasty in India in 1526 Zahir al-Umar, virtual Arab ruler of northern Palestine in the 18th century Zahir Pajaziti (1962-1997), The first Commander...
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