His book is an important contemporary source of Fakhr al-Din's life and for the history of Lebanon and Palestine under Ottoman rule during his lifetime.
[1][2] He received his religious education at al-Azhar in Cairo and afterward became the mufti of the Hanafi fiqh (school of Islamic jurisprudence) of his hometown.
After the appointment of Fakhr al-Din, a Druze emir from Mount Lebanon and the sanjak-bey (district governor) of Sidon-Beirut, to the governorship of Safad in 1602, Khalidi became his adviser.
[3] The manuscripts were edited and published under the title Lubnan fi ahd al-Amir Fakhr al-Din al-Ma'ni al-Thani by Asad Rustum and Fuad Bustani in Beirut in 1936.
His other, earlier important work was Tawq al-Hamamah fi al-Nasab li Muluk al-Ajam wa al-Arab (The Ring of the Dove in the Genealogy of the Persian and Arab Kings), which is unpublished.