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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 – 21 or 22 August 1775), was an Arab ruler of northern Palestine in the mid-18th century, while the region was part of the Ottoman Empire.
Zahir al-‘Umar al-Zaydani (1690-1775) was arguably the best-known provincial leader in the Syrian provinces of the Ottoman Sultanate to establish an autonomous regime in northern Palestine.
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 – 21 or 22 August 1775), was an Arab ruler of northern Palestine in the mid-18th century, while the region was part of the Ottoman Empire.
Zahir, who was at least eighty years old by that time, was murdered as he attempted to leave the city.1 Of the nine historical accounts examined here, five are explicitly writ- ten on the subject of Zahir al-4 Umar: one entry in a biographical dictio- nary, Silk al-Durar fi a'yan al-qarn al-thani 'ashar by Muhammad Khalil.
al-‘Umar in 1775. Variously known as Zahir al-‘Umar, al-Dahir ‘Umar, and Dahir al-‘Umar, he was a local petty multazim (tax-farmer) of tribal background, who managed to garner unprecedented power and prestige in eighteenth-century Palestine. Through a shrewd policy of alternating cooperation with and rebellion against the
In the Battle of Lake Huleh 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, at Lake Huleh in the eastern Galilee.
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