Bashir Shihab II
Bashir Shihab II (Arabic: بشير الثاني الشهابي, romanized: Bashīr al-Thānī al-Shihābī, also spelled Bachir Chehab II; 2 January 1767–1850) was a Lebanese emir who ruled the Emirate of Mount Lebanon in the first half of the 19th century. Born to a branch of the Shihab family which had converted from Sunni Islam, the religion of previous Shihabi emirs, he was the only Maronite ruler of the Mount Lebanon Emirate.
| Bashir Shihab | |
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Portrait of Bashir Shihab II | |
| Emir of Mount Lebanon | |
| Reign | September 1789 – October 1840 |
| Predecessor | Yusuf Shihab |
| Successor | Bashir Shihab III |
| Born | 1767 Ghazir, Sidon Eyalet, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 1850 (aged 82–83) Istanbul, Ottoman Empire |
| Spouse | Shams Shihab (m. 1787–1829) Hisn Jihan (m. 1833–1840) |
| Issue | Qasim Khalil Amin Majid Sa'da (daughter) Sa'ud (daughter) |
| Dynasty | Shihab dynasty |
| Father | Qasim Shihab |
| Religion | Maronite Catholic |
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