"Shaikh of the Levant" was one of the most noted Islamic scholars in the 20th and 21st centuries. Khayr al-Din al-Zirikli (1893–1976), a Syrian historian, nationalist and poet Ahmed Kuftaro (1915–2004), was the Grand Mufti of Syria, the highest officially appointed Sunni Muslim representative of the Fatwa-Administration in the Syrian Ministry of Auqaf in Syria Mohammad Hosni (1894–1969) father of Soad Hosny (1943–2001) was a master calligrapher at the Royal Institute of Calligraphy in Cairo. Mohammed Amin Kuftaro (1877–1938), was a noted Islamic scholar and head of the Naqshbandi Sufi tariqa Abdul Rahman Al Rashi (1943–2014), actor Cigerxwîn (1903–1984), writers and poets Khaled Taja (1939–2012), actor Kheireddine Wanli (1933–2004), poet References External links Website of the Abu Nur Mosque Neighborhoods of Damascus