Jumblatt family in Lebanon.
The Jumblatt family is a famous Kurdish family in Lebanon.
The ancestors of the Jumblatt family, who came down from western Kurdistan, first settled in a small cave in the Mukhtara village of the Chouf District in Mount Lebanon Governorate. This happened shortly after the Kurdish prince Ali Janbulad (Can Polad is the Kurdish name for the Jumblatt family) established a large emirate in western Kurdistan and northern Syria, including Gaziantep, Kilis, Homs, Hama, Aleppo and Damascus. Prince Ali Janbulad succeeded in preserving the independence of his emirate for a few years, and concluded several treaties with the Vatican, the Duchy of Tuscany, Spain and the Christian states that existed at the time. Prince Ali Janbulad is considered the first to grant immunity to Christians in the East, and to their children the same rights and the same freedoms that the rest of his subjects had. He used to receive ambassadors in his court, and minted money in his name, but he was eventually dismissed after being defeated by an Ottoman army of 300,000 soldiers led by the head of government (the Grand Vizier) himself. The rule of the Jumblatt family in Lebanon began during the days of Prince Fakhr El-Din. Then it became stronger after that. And about the history of the Jumblatt Kurds embracing the Druze sect, Kamal Jumblatt says in his book (This is my will): {We do not know a fixed term for this, because the Druze faith is very clear in this regard, and it is well known that it is not for those who do not belong to this inner bee to impersonate it and become a Druze, then the door of the call was not opened until during the caliphate of the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim, by the command of God in The limits of the year one thousand, then the door of dawah was closed after that, and then perhaps our ancestors had preceded the Druze sect when they were still living in the Aleppo region, and this hypothesis would explain the presence of about 60,000 Druze in this region of Anatolia in southern Turkey, And the presence of another 20,000 Druze in northern Syria (Mount Ala). [1] [2]