Druze

Druze communities in Mount Lebanon came under Ottoman rule after Sultan Selim I conquered Syria in 1516. The Ma'n family retained local authority, although an Ottoman expedition attacked the Druze in 1585.

The Druze emir Fakhr al-Din II expanded his power from the Shuf into other parts of the Levant. An Ottoman campaign forced him into exile in 1613, but he returned in 1618 and defeated the governor of Damascus at Anjar in 1623. He surrendered to the Ottomans in 1633 and was executed in Constantinople in 1635.