Umar al-Zaydani | |
Office1: | Sanjak-Bey of Safad |
Term Start1: | 1701 |
Term End1: | 1706 |
Predecessor1: | Mansour Shihab I |
Successor1: | Muhammad Nafi' |
Dynasty: | Ottoman Empire |
Parents: | Zaydan |
Children: | Sa'd al-Omar Zahir al-Omar Salih "Abu Dani" al-Omar Yusuf al-Omar Shammah |
Relations: | Zaydani family |
Death Date: | 1706 |
Death Place: | Galilee (Safed Sanjak), Sidon Eyalet, Ottoman Empire |
Umar al-Zaydani (died 1706) was the multazem (tax farmer) of Safad and Tiberias, and surrounding villages, between 1697 and 1706 and the sanjak-bey (district governor) of Safad between 1701 and 1706.[1] He was appointed by the governor of Sidon, Arslan Mehmed Pasha, the sanjak-bey (district governor) of Safad.[2] Umar belonged to the Zayadina, an Arab clan that was part of the same Qaisi confederation as the semi-autonomous Shihab emirs (princes) of Mount Lebanon. Following Emir Mansour's death, Umar succeeded him as sanjak-bey. Umar was the father of Zahir al-Umar.[1]