Muslim clerics welcoming Imam Musa al-Sadr, Chairman of the Higher Shiite Islamic Council in Lebanon, to Damascus in the mid-1970s

From left to right: Imam al-Sadr, Syria\'s Grand Mufti Ahmad Kaftaro, Awqaf Minister Abdul-Sattar Sayyed, Aleppo\'s Mufti Mohammad al-Hakim. Imam al-Sadr was also founder of the Amal movement that emerged during the Lebanese Civil War, which was led by Nabih Berri after his sudden disappearance in Libya in 1978. Source: Syrianhistory.com Archive