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Sheikh Yusuf al-Hakim (the Physician)

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A physician-sheikh dated to the 15th–16th century, renowned as a healer; oral tradition holds he came from Latakia (Syria) to Harbiye and treated ailments such as blindness, paralysis and fractures. His exact death date is undocumented. His tomb lies in the Defne district in the Harbiye valley along the Antakya–Harbiye road and is still visited for healing. (Sources: Lokman Hekim Journal of History of Medicine, dergipark.org.tr; Hatay Governorate)

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