In 1633 Fakhr al-Din II, the Ma'nid chief who controlled Mount Lebanon and its environs and whose mother Sitt Nasab was a Buhturid, was captured and imprisoned by the Ottomans, who appointed in his place over the Chouf a certain Ali Alam al-Din. That year Alam al-Din moved against Fakhr al-Din's supporters and family. He massacred the entire Buhturid family in a surprise attack during a meeting with the family's leaders in their headquarters at Abeih in the Gharb. Duwayhi details Alam al-Din's slaying of the preeminent Buhturid chief Yahya al-Aqil, the lesser chiefs Mahmud, Nasir al-Din (Mundhir's nephew) and Sayf al-Din (Nasir al-Din's son), followed by the killing of their three sons in a nearby tower, leaving no child to succeed them. Harris called the elimination of the Buhturid family the extinguishing [of] an illustrious name in Lebanon's medieval history.