Al-Harthy family in Marj bin Amer (885 AH / 1480 AD - 1088 AH / 1677 AD)
Abstract
The relationship that has developed between the local powers in the Arab states of the Ottoman Empire on the one hand, and the Ottoman authorities on the other hand, are among the topics that have come to attract the attention of researchers and scholars of modern Arab history. Among these powers is a local family known as the Al-Tarabai family, which later became known as the Al-Harithi family and had emerged as an influential family since the late fifteenth century AD in the Al-Lajjun region in northeastern Palestine. To what recorded historical era does this family have its roots? What is its position on the Ottomans? And what military, administrative and financial tasks were assigned to it? Finally, what is the relationship that arose between this force and the rest of the local forces that were modernized, especially since the Qaisi-Yemeni party was rampant among the people of Bilad al-Sham: Badia, Riva and present.