Fuzuli (poet)
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Muhammad bin Suleyman, better known by his pen name Fuzuli, was a 16th-century poet who composed works in his native Azerbaijani, as well as Persian and Arabic. He is regarded as one of the greatest p
Miniature depiction of Fuzuli in 16th-century work Meşâ'ir al-Şu'arâ by Aşık Çelebi
The Imam Husayn Shrine, where Fuzuli worked as a candle-lighter later in his life
Azerbaijani stamp commemorating the 500th anniversary of Fuzuli's birth, 1994
Battle of Karbala
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The Battle of Karbala was fought on 10 October 680 between the army of the second Umayyad caliph Yazid I and a small army led by Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, at Karbal
Abbas Al-Musavi's Battle of Karbala, Brooklyn Museum
Coin issued by Yazid I following Sasanian motifs, struck at the Basra mint, dated AH 61 (AD 680/1), the year in which the Battle of Karbala occurred
The al-Abbas Mosque in Karbala
Shrine to those killed at the battle