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Baha al-Din al-Amili

Baha al-Din al-Amili

1547 CE–1621 CE · Baalbek

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Baalbek

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Born 27 Dhu al-Hijja 953 / 18 February 1547 near Baalbek (present-day Lebanon), then in Ottoman Syria. His family belonged to the Twelver Shia scholarly community of Jabal Amil in southern Lebanon; some sources name the Jabal Amil village of Juba' as the ancestral home. (Encyclopaedia Iranica; Britannica; MacTutor)

About Baalbek

Baalbek (classical Heliopolis), in the Beqaa Valley of modern Lebanon, is famed for its monumental Roman temples and was a town of Bilad al-Sham under Muslim rule. The Damascene scholar and Sufi Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi (d. 1731) and the Shi'i polymath Baha al-Din al-Amili (d. 1621) are among the figures connected to it; the early Syrian jurist al-Awza'i (d. 774) was active in the wider region of Syria-Lebanon.

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