Ali's family, the Janbulads, at least partly remained in their home region of Kurd-Dagh where until the present day traditional ballads are sung celebrating Ali. Part of the family may have been reestablished in Mount Lebanon where, according to the 19th-century chronicler Tannus al-Shidyaq, a certain Janbulad ibn Sa'id, possibly Ali's grandson, and his sons Sa'id and Rabah were received by Ali's old ally Fakhr al-Din in 1630 and settled in the Chouf village of Mazraa. Janbulad and his sons became close associates of Fakhr al-Din and the Khazens, a Maronite family in Keserwan, from 1631 until Fakhr al-Din's demise four years later. The family, which intermarried with the local Druze and converted to the Druze religion, became known as the Junblat (or Jumblatt), the Arabicized version of Janbulad. In the version of the 17th-century historian and associate of Fakhr al-Din, al-Khalidi al-Safadi, a certain Shaykh Junblat is mentioned in the Druze area of Mount Lebanon in 1614, though without any mention of a link to Janbulad or information about his origins. The modern historian William Harris notes it is only clear that the name Junblat did not feature before the [Ali] Janbulad affair. The Junblat family emerged as one of the most dominant Druze clans and factions in Mount Lebanon's politics in the 17th-19th centuries.