Karbala
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Karbala is a major city in central Iraq. It is the capital of Karbala Governorate. With a population of around 800,000 people in 2024, Karbala is the second-largest city in central Iraq, after Baghdad
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حرم الامام الحسين
KARBALA
بحيرة الرزازة في كربلاء
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
Karbala
…The city is located a few miles east of Lake Milh, also known as Razzaza Lake. Karbala is one of the main political, spiritual, and cultural hubs of Shia Islam. The city was the location of the Battle of Karbala in 680 CE between Husayn and his band of followers, including some armed women, and several thousand…
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)