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  2. Imam Husayn shrine - Wikipedia

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    Imam Hussain shrine in 1932. Imam Husayn shrine (before the renovations in 2008). Husayn bought a piece of land after his arrival at Karbala' from Bani Asad. He and his Ahl al-Bayt are buried in that portion, known as al-Ḥā'ir (الحائر), where the shrines are presently located. The history of destruction and reconstruction of the ...

  3. Battle of Karbala - Wikipedia

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    The Imam Husayn Shrine during Arba'een. The killing of the grandson of Muhammad shocked the Muslim community. [8] The image of Yazid suffered and gave rise to sentiment that he was impious. [95] The event has had an emotional impact on Sunnis, [96] who remember the event as a tragic incident and those killed in the company of Husayn as martyrs ...

  4. Wahhabi sack of Karbala - Wikipedia

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    Describing the event as "a horrible example of Wahhabis' cruel fanaticism in the terrible fate of [mosque of] Imam Husayn," Rousseau, who was residing in Iraq at the time, wrote that an incredible amount of wealth, including donations of silver, gold, and jewels to Husayn ibn Ali's shrine and those brought by Nadir Shah from his India campaign ...

  5. Arba'in pilgrimage - Wikipedia

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    Indeed, this generosity and hospitality are said to characterize the Arba'in pilgrimage. When the pilgrims finally reach the shrine of Husayn in Karbala, they recite the ziyara of Arba'in, a supplication for this occasion. [30] As with other Shia rituals of Karbala, [32] the Arba'in pilgrimage was banned by the Iraqi president Saddam Hussein (r.

  6. Karbala - Wikipedia

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    Warith al-Anbiya University in Karbala, sponsored by the Imam Husayn Holy Shrine, was established in 2017. It has the faculties of engineering, administration, economics, law and pathology. It received its first batch of students in the academic year 2017–2018. [61]

  7. Shiite Muslims in Lebanon and Iraq commemorate Ashour ... - AOL

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    In Iraq, thousands of Shiite Muslim pilgrims commemorated Ashoura in Karbala at Hussein’s shrine, the largest Islamic gathering except for the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Iraqis ...

  8. Iraqi religious bodies house patients instead of pilgrims to ...

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    The holy Shi'ite city of Kerbala, which used to host pilgrims from all around the world, is now quarantining dozens of COVID-19 patients in apartment buildings owned by Imam Hussein shrine, one of ...

  9. Husayn ibn Ali - Wikipedia

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    Imam Husayn Shrine, Karbala Governorate, Iraq ... According to majority of narrations, Hussain was born on the 3rd of Sha'ban 4 AH (11 January 626 CE) [11] ...