Early Life
Daher was born to a family of local Qaysi notables in the Tiberias area, with strong connections to Arab-Bedouin tribesmen in the Galilee district, which at that time was under the control of the Ottoman Empire. He was the youngest of the four sons born to the Sheikh ʿUmar az-Zaydānī. He grew up in the village of Saffuriya. In 1698 ʿUmar az-Zaydānī had been appointed governor and chief tax collector (Multazem) of the Safad region by Emir Bashir Shihab the First (1698–1705), governor (Wali) of Mount Lebanon. At his death in 1703, his sons jointly succeeded him as rulers of Safad. During those formative years, Daher was confronted by the greed of the Ottoman governors of Saida and the attacks of the Bedouin tribes against the villages of the family fiefdom. Those elements shaped his political and military actions as an adult.
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