El Azar family north Lebanon kora?

Answer 1

In his book, The Politics of Interventionism in Ottoman Lebanon 1830-1861, Caesar E. Farah, Professor of Middle-Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota, describes the feudal structure that characterized Mount Lebanon from the late seventeenth century through the nineteenth century. The author lists the Shaykhs of the Christian north, including the Greek Orthodox Azar shaykhs of al-Kura district. In his references, he includes RLNA, Events of 1860, 7786, an instrument bearing the signatures of Abu Lam' emirs, Khazin, Hubaysh, Dahir, Dahdah, Abu Sa'b, Hashim and 'Azar shaykhs - the principal feudal families of the north.