Al Hamdan (Arabic: آل حمدان, romanized: Āl Ḥamdān) is a Druze clan based in Jabal al-Druze, a mountainous region in southeastern Syria.
[1] However, Druzite historian Kais Firro views the claim of Hamdanid descent as skeptical and believes the Al Hamdan invented and spread it to boost their legitimacy as leaders of the Druze community, which generally held great respect for noble genealogy.
When the Alam al-Dins returned to Mount Lebanon to fight alongside his Yamani kinsmen in 1711, leadership of the Hawran Druze passed to the Al Hamdan.
[7] The following year, Isma'il al-Atrash captured the Al Hamdan's secondary village, Ira, and drove out its sheikh Hazza al-Hamdan, Wakid's brother.
[8] By 1862, the Al Hamdan had lost Qanawat, which no longer came under any one particular family's rule, but rather served as the headquarters of the Druze shaykh al-aql (religious leader), Sheikh Husayn al-Hajari.