The main arena of the revolt evolved in the Damascus Eyalet - Jerusalem,[2] Nablus and Hebron (Palestine or Southern Syria), as well as a major tribal Bedouin rebellion in Al-Karak (Transjordan);[3] other peasant revolts also erupted in Sidon Eyalet - led by Arab Muslims and Druze and encompassing Mount Lebanon,[2] Hauran and Galilee; and a revolt[2] in Aleppo Eyalet - led by Alawites of the Syrian coast. The cause of the revolts was mainly refusal of Syrian peasants to answer conscription and disarmanent orders of new Egyptian rulers of the Muhammad Ali dynasty,[2] in line with anti-Egyptian attitudes of local Ottoman loyalists.[4]