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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.
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
Zahir al-'Umar 333 'Umar al-Zaydani, a shaykh who ruled much of northern Palestine and southern Lebanon in the second and third quarters of the eighteenth century. Expanding from a family base around Safad, Zahir, his sons, and his retinue established political and economic control in the Galilee,
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.
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Revolt in Palestine in the Eighteenth Century: The Era of Shaykh Zahir al-‘Umar, by Ahmad Hasan Joudah. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2013. 2nd ed. xi + 154 pages. Maps, appendices, and images to p. 204.
