Imam Ali Shrine
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The Imam Ali Shrine, also known as the Mosque of Ali, is the mausoleum of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, the first Shia Imam, and the fourth Sunni Rashid
The shrine in 2026
1883 Ottoman lithograph of the shrine.
The Shrine in 2005
Tiling work in the shrine
Shia Islam
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Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam. It is rooted in the belief that the Islamic prophet Muhammad explicitly designated his cousin and son-in-law Ali ibn Abi Talib as his rightful politic
Imam Ali Shrine
…of Iraq. It is a profoundly holy site in Shia Islam. As the burial site of one of Islam's most important figures, the Imam Ali Shrine is considered by Shia Muslims as the holiest site in Islam after Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, the Prophet's Mosque in Medina and Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Ali is considered Muhammad’s…
The investiture of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib at Ghadir Khumm (MS Arab 161, fol. 162r, 1308–1309, Ilkhanid manuscript illustration)
Great Mosque of Kufa, site of ʿAlī's assassination (661)
Shāh ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm Shrine in Rey, Iran
Battle of Karbala, painting by the Isfahan-based Persian artist Abbas Al-Mousavi (between 1868 and 1933)