Khazen

Cheikh Abou-Nawfal El Khazen (Consul de France)

ألشيخ أبو نوفل ألخازن   هو نادر أبن , أبي نادر , أبن ألشدياق سركيس ألخازن . ولد في مطلع ألجيل ألسابع عشر . وفي سنة 1631 جدد بناء قلعة سمر جبيل بعد أن هدمتها ألزلزلة في ألسنة ألسابقة وقتل فيها أبنه ألبكر نوفل ووالدته بنت ألشيخ معتوق حبيش . وسنة 1635 عقيب مقتل ألأمير […]

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Division of the wealth in “Ain Cheqaik” and Bkerke

Wealth Division in “Ain Cheqaik” and Bkerke between the branch of Cheikh Khattar el Khazen branch and Cheikh Haikal el Khazen.

Cheikh Khattar el Khazen and his descendants  took ownership of wakf Bkerke.

Cheikh Haikal el Khazen and his descendants toow ownership of wakf Ain Cheqaik

Later in 1937 Cheikh Chafic Barbar el Khazen (Descendant of Cheikh Khattar el khazen) left the Bkerke wakf to the Lebanese Maronites

For more info please review links:

https://khazen.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=343&catid=78:documents&Itemid=183

and link

https://khazen.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3119:letter-from-maronite-patriarch-of-antioch-youhanna-boutros-el-helou-to-cheikh-khattar-khazen-el-khazen&catid=78:documents&Itemid=183

and link

https://khazen.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=295:bkerke-el-khazen-waqf&catid=78:documents&Itemid=183

and link

https://khazen.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=319&catid=78:documents&Itemid=183

 

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Cheikh Abou-Nader El Khazen

الشيخ ابو نادر الخازن هو خازن ابن ابراهيم , ابن الشدياق سركيس الخازن , وصفية بنت فارس الجميل تولى منصب مدبر دائم لدى الأمير فخر الدين ومن بعده لدى ابن شقيقه الأمير ملحم بالأضافة الى وظيفة مستشارهما الخاص . كما تولى حكم كسروان وجبيل والبترون وبشري والمرقب وحاكم بيروت . وفي شهر ايلول سنة 1633 […]

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Bkerke El Khazen waqf

Unique Document showing that Cheikh Khazen El Khazen and Cheikh Jneid El Khazen from the branch of Cheikh Khattar El Khazen (son of Consul Cheikh Fayad Abou Kanso El Khazen) gave permission for the Maronite Clergy to use Bkerke in 1750. Please click “Read More” to view the full size document.

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Who were the Phoenicians?

National Geographic Magazine, By Rick Gore, We know they dominated sea trade in the Mediterranean for 3,000 years. Now DNA testing and recent archaeological finds are revealing just what the Phoenician legacy meant to the ancient world

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Cheikh Abou Kanso El Khazen

ألشيخ أبو قنصوه فياض الخازن   هو فياض ابن ابي نوفل , ابن ابي نادر خازن , ابن ابي صقر ابراهيم , ابن الشدياق سركيس الخازن . خلف والده أبا نوفل بقنصلية فرنسا على بيروت سنة 1679 م بموجب براءة ألملك لويس ألرابع عشر ذاتها لأبيه . وسنة 1680 م شرع ببناء دار عظيمة في […]

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Audio & Video

Khazen Multimedia Section                     The Lebanese Anthem in G Major, Version by Pierre Khazen (play music)   The Lebanese Anthem in G Minor, Version by Pierre Khazen (play music)       Cheikh Walid el-Khazen, chevalier de Malte   Cheikh Walid el-Khazen, chevalier de Malte awarded the the Pro Merito Melitensi Cross.   Karen […]

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The clergy and the Khazin sheiks in the 17th century

SOURCE: Notables and Clergy in Mount Lebanon by Richard Van Leewen, Chapter 4: Section II

4.2.1 The clergy and the Khazin sheiks in the 17th centuryAlthough information is scarce, some historians have described the relations between the Maronite clergy and laymen before the 18th century as a rather harmonious symbiosis. This, perhaps too idealized, picture suggests that the patriarch’s authority was required to legitimize secular leadership, while the latter fulfilled the role of patrons of the church and the clergy, who provided the financial support of the church and, according to customary practice, participated in the election of patriarchs and the nomination of mutrans.

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