Fouad Bey Jumblatt ( ar, فؤاد بك جنبلاط; 1885 – 6 August 1921) was a powerful director of the
Chouf District
Chouf (also spelled Shouf, Shuf or Chuf, in ''Jabal ash-Shouf''; french: La Montagne du Chouf) is a historic region of Lebanon, as well as an administrative district in the governorate (muhafazat) of Mount Lebanon.
Geography
Located south-east o ...
in
Lebanon
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. He was assassinated on 6 August 1921.
Early life and education
Fouad Jumblatt was born in 1885. His family is originally from the
Druze Mountain in
Syria
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.
The members of his family emigrated to Lebanon in the 17th century and settled in
Mukhtara
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in the Chouf. Eventually they became as one of the two leading
Druze
The Druze (; ar, دَرْزِيٌّ, ' or ', , ') are an Arabic-speaking esoteric ethnoreligious group from Western Asia who adhere to the Druze faith, an Abrahamic, monotheistic, syncretic, and ethnic religion based on the teachings of ...
families in Lebanon along with the Arslans.
[ Fouad Jumblatt studied at the ]American University of Beirut
The American University of Beirut (AUB) ( ar, الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت) is a private, non-sectarian, and independent university chartered in New York with its campus in Beirut, Lebanon. AUB is governed by a private, aut ...
. However, he did not graduate from the university due to his illness.[
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Career
He was appointed by Ottomans
The Ottoman Turks ( tr, Osmanlı Türkleri), were the Turkic founding and sociopolitically the most dominant ethnic group of the Ottoman Empire ( 1299/1302–1922).
Reliable information about the early history of Ottoman Turks remains scarce, ...
as the administrator of Shouf
Chouf (also spelled Shouf, Shuf or Chuf, in ''Jabal ash-Shouf''; french: La Montagne du Chouf) is a historic region of Lebanon, as well as an administrative Districts of Lebanon, district in the Governorates of Lebanon, governorate (Muhafazah, mu ...
. Then he served as governor of Shouf under the French mandate.[
]
Personal life
His wife was Nazira Jumblatt
Nazira Jumblatt (18901951) () was a Druze leader and the mother of Lebanese politician and Kamal Jumblatt. She was styled ''sitt'' (lady in Arabic).
Biography
Nazira was born in 1890, and her parents were Faris and Afrida Said Jumblatt. She wa ...
(1890–1951) who enjoyed a prestigious social status after the death of her husband.Kamal Jumblatt
Kamal Fouad Jumblatt ( ar, كمال فؤاد جنبلاط; 6 December 1917 – 16 March 1977) was a Lebanese politician who founded the Progressive Socialist Party. He led the National Movement during the civil war against the Lebanese Front. H ...
, and grandfather of the Druze
The Druze (; ar, دَرْزِيٌّ, ' or ', , ') are an Arabic-speaking esoteric ethnoreligious group from Western Asia who adhere to the Druze faith, an Abrahamic, monotheistic, syncretic, and ethnic religion based on the teachings of ...
political leader, Walid Jumblatt
Walid Kamal Jumblatt ( ar, وليد جنبلاط; born 7 August 1949) is a Lebanese Druze politician and former militia commander who has been leading the Progressive Socialist Party since 1977. While leading the Lebanese National Resistance Fr ...
. Fouad and Nazira also had a daughter, Linda Al Atrash, who was killed in her house in East Beirut in May 1976 during the civil war
A civil war or intrastate war is a war between organized groups within the same state (or country).
The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ...
.
Death
Fouad Jumblatt was killed by Shakeeb Wahhab in 1921 when he was thirty-six years old and his son Kamal was four years old.
See also
* List of assassinated Lebanese politicians
This is a list of many, but not all, of the assassinated Lebanese political figures:
*Amine Abouchahine - senior member of the Progressive Socialist Party. Assassinated on 15 July 1975 by a member of the Kataeb Regulatory Forces.
*Sheikh Ahmad A ...
References
1885 births
1921 deaths
Lebanese Druze
Fouad
Assassinated Lebanese politicians
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