List of Famous people born in Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, Lebanon

Shams al-Din Ibn al-Mawsili

First Name Shams

Last Name Al-Mawsili

Born on November 30, 1299

Died on November 30, 1371 (aged 72)

Born in Lebanon, Baalbek-Hermel Governorate

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Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir

First Name Sheikh

Last Name Musafir

Born on January 1, 1073

Died on January 1, 1162 (aged 89)

Born in Lebanon, Baalbek-Hermel Governorate

Sheikh ‘Adī ibn Musāfir was a Muslim sheikh of Arab origin, born in the 1070s in the village of Bait Far, in the Beqaa Valley of present-day Lebanon. ‘Adīs house of his birth is a place of pious pilgrimage to this day. The Yazidi consider him an avatar of Tawûsê Melek, which means "Peacock Angel". Muslims respect him as one of the pioneers of asceticism and the scholars of Sufism who held firmly to the Quran and Sunnah. His tomb at Lalish, Iraq is a focal point of Yazidi pilgrimage.

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