sentences:  Following the 1711 Battle of Ain Dara between the rival Qaysi and Yamani factions of the Druze, in which the Yamani were routed, the latter faction began a mass exodus to the Hauran from Mount Lebanon.The Al Hamdan were part of this migration.At the time of the migration, a small Druze community was present in Hauran and led by Emir Alam ad-Din, a Yamani prince related to the Ma'an dynasty which had dominated Mount Lebanon between the 14th and 17th centuries.