- entity.
Fakhr al-Din was born c. 1572, the
eldest of at
least two sons of
Qurqumaz ibn Yunus, the
other son
being Yunus. They
belonged to the Ma'n dynasty...
-
destructive 1585
Ottoman expedition against the
Druze prompted the Ma'nid emir
Qurqumaz ibn
Yunis to go into
hiding in the
neighboring Kisrawan,
where he died...
-
local historian Haydar al-Shihabi, who
confused him with his grandson,
Qurqumaz ibn Yunis, and
placed his
death in 1544. The Ma'n family, to
which Fakhr...
-
money were
collected as tax
arrears by
Ibrahim Pasha. The Ma'nid
chief Qurqumaz, one of the prin****l
targets of the expedition, died in
hiding after refusing...
- The emir
Qurqumaz shut
himself up in the
inaccessible rock of
Shakif Tirun near
Jezzine and died there, 'of
chagrin or poison', in 1585.
Qurqumaz was succeeded...
-
descendants of
Qurqumaz, who may have
sought to void
competing Alam al-Din
claims to the
paramount leadership of the
Druze enjo**** by the
Qurqumaz line. The...
- to arms in 1518, he was imprisoned. The son of the Ma'nid emir Yunus,
Qurqumaz, was
summoned and
confirmed by
Selim in
Damascus as the
chief of the Chouf...
- of his career. The tax
farms he held were
largely inherited by his sons
Qurqumaz and Ahmad, the
latter retaining them
until his
death in 1697.
Ahmad was...
-
defeated the
Crusaders in an
engagement in 1244. Amir's son and successor,
Qurqumaz, took
refuge with the Ma'ns in the
Chouf during a
Mongol invasion in 1280...
-
muqaddams named in the
order were the Ma'nid
Qurqumaz,
possibly the
grandson of the above-mentioned
Qurqumaz, the
Tanukhid Sharaf al-Din and the non-Druze...
