Hamrat El Sheikh

built just outside the town. Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, the 17th-century Sufi sheikh, visited the false tomb of Persian Sufi mystic Abu Yazid al-Bistami at ar-Rastan

outside the base, while another four were killed in the village of Al-Hamrat, and that another seven civilians were wounded when a missile hit homes

Cathedral of Our Lady of Tortosa, now used as the city museum. Beit el-Baik Palace. Sheikh Saleh al-Ali shrine in Al-Shaykh Badr. Hosn Suleiman Temple. Drekish

residences from rain damage. Furqlus was administered by an array of Arab sheikhs who each headed their own clan or tribe. In the 1960s, Furqlus was a large

priest, consisted of some two hundred houses. At the time, al-Qaryatayn's sheikh (chieftain) was Ahmad ibn Fayyad Agha, and the village paid numerous regional