Mundhir al-Tanukhi

1556 – c. 1624), also known as Mundhir al-Tanukhi (alternate transliterations: Monzer, Munzir or Mounzer) was a Buhturid emir of the Gharb district in Mount Lebanon and the subdistrict governor (zabit) of Beirut in 1616–1623.

He was likely the grandson of Nasir al-Din Muhammad, who served as the multazim (limited-term tax farmer) of the port of Beirut in 1567–1569 for the Ottoman Empire, which conquered the area in 1516.

[4] In 1556 Mundhir was wed to Jalila bint Jamal al-Din Ahmad, a woman of the Arslans, a family of emirs long-established in the Gharb village of Choueifat and distantly related to the Buhturids.

[2] His nephew Fakhr al-Din II became the sanjak-bey (district governor) of the Sidon-Beirut Sanjak in 1593 and continued to hold the post directly or by proxy through his son Ali until 1613.

In response, Ali mobilized his men and mercenaries from the Chouf and Safed and took over the tower of Mundhir's father-in-law, Jamal al-Din, in Beirut to pressure the Buhturids to drop their request.

They were lured into a meeting in Abeih by Ali Alam al-Din, who had been appointed by the Ottomans to replace the Ma'ns in their tax farms in Mount Lebanon.

[10][11] The journalist Samir Kassir called it "a small jewel of a mosque" and "the principal architectural legacy of Fakhr al-Din's era [in Beirut]".