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.