Fakhr-al-Din II, Ottoman prince (born 1572)

Fakhr al-Din II

Druze emir of Mount Lebanon (6 August 1572–13 April 1635)

Fakhr al-Din Ma'n, commonly known as Fakhr al-Din II or Fakhreddine II, was the paramount Druze emir of Mount Lebanon from the Ma'n dynasty, an Ottoman governor of Sidon-Beirut and Safed, and the strongman over much of the Levant from the 1620s to 1633. For uniting modern…