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The Wahhabi sack of Karbala occurred on 21 April 1802 (1216 H), under the rule of Abdulaziz bin Muhammad Al Saud, the second ruler of the Emirate of Diriyah. Approximately 12,000 Wahhabis from Najd attacked the city of Karbala .
In 1802, 12,000 Wahhabis sacked Karbala in Iraq killing up to 5,000 people and plundering the Imam Husayn shrine. ... This page was last edited on 5 February 2025, ...
After Musa al-Wahab was killed in the sack of Karbala on April 22, 1802, some of the city's dignitaries, Sayyid Ali al-Tabatabei, Sayyid Murtadha Al Daraj (the naqib then), Sheikh Ali Abd al-Rasool (saden of the Abbas shrine), sent a transcript to the governor, Sulayman Pasha, requesting that Nasrallah be the saden of the Husayn shrine, and so ...
Abdulaziz was born in 1720 [6] [7] and was the eldest son of Muhammad bin Saud. [8] [9] He was educated by Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab and became a Wahhabi scholar.[10]Long before the death of his father Abdulaziz was announced the next ruler of the state at the request of Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab. [2]
The Battle of Karbala galvanized the development of the pro-Alid [b] party (Shi'at Ali) into a distinct religious sect with its own rituals and collective memory. It has a central place in Shi'a history, tradition, and theology, and has frequently been recounted in Shi'a literature .
The library was however destroyed during the Wahabi sack of Karbala. Sayyid Muhammad-Mehdi al-Shahristani died in 1801, and his son Sayyid Muhammad-Husayn al-Shahristani, known as agha buzurg ( transl. great lord ), who participated in the Battle of Menakhur in 1826, took the reins from his father.
Karbala [a] is a city in central Iraq, located about 100 km (62 mi) southwest of Baghdad, and a few miles east of Lake Milh, also known as Razzaza Lake. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Karbala is the capital of Karbala Governorate , and has an estimated population of 691,100 people (2024).
In 1801 and 1802, the Saudis under Abdul Aziz ibn Muhammad ibn Saud attacked and captured the Shia holy cities of Karbala and Najaf in today's Iraq, massacred parts of the Shia Muslim population and destroyed the tomb of Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of Muhammad and son of Ali, Muhammad's son-in-law.