Daher al-Omar, the Arab-Bedouin ruler of the…

1771 CE

Daher al-Omar, the Arab-Bedouin ruler of the Galilee district of the southern Levant, has helped Ali Bey al-Kabir, the Mamluk usurper of Egypt, by blocking an Ottoman force heading south to suppress the rebellion in Egypt.

Ali Bey had sent a force of thirty thousand that conquers most of Palestine and Damascus from November 1770 to June 1771, his occupation of Syria reconstituting, if temporarily, the Mamluk state that had disappeared in 1517.

After the troops arrive at Damascus (with help from Daher) in 1771, the Egyptian commander of the troops, Abu al-Dhahab, refuses to continue fighting against the Ottomans, and turns against Ali Bey.

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