The quality of Christ is the most central question, where the Christians of Lebanon, the Maronites, profess that Jesus was both man and god. In the following two centuries, Lebanon is divided between two crusader kingdoms, the one of Tripoli, and the one of Jerusalem . This period gives strength to the Maronite Christians, who enters an union with the church of Rome. A slow Muslim reconquest starts, directed by the Ayyubids of Egypt . The Ottomans takes control over Lebanon.
Some autonomy is achieved for Lebanon.
Local dynasty, the Maans, rule Lebanon. Druze groups remove the Shihabs from power, but Lebanon is still part of the Ottoman empire. Civil war ends, with the Druze in a dominant position. Intervention from Istanbul , and France, with actions towards the Muslim population. A Christian autonomic province is set up in the middle of Lebanon.