Definitions
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- noun a city of central Iraq to the south of Baghdad; a holy city for Shiite Muslims because it is the site of the tomb of Mohammed's grandson who was killed there in 680
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Examples
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Basrah and the site of old Kufah near Kerbela; the well known visitation place in Babylonian Irak.
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Al-Hosayn, on the other hand, was slain and decapitated at Kerbela.
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They were Shias, and had been since the days of Kerbela, and in Hejaz were respected only second to the Emirs of Mecca.
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The settled population lies entirely along the banks of these streams and the canals and lagoons westward of the Euphrates, between Kerbela and Nejef.
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There are four great centres of pilgrimage for Shi ` ite Moslems in the vilayet, Samarra, Kazemain, a suburb of Bagdad, Kerbela and Nejef.
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Suddenly from out the city of Ur (Kerbela), near the ancient mouth of the Euphrates, appears a traveller.
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Phoenicians; or secondly, that these islands were looked upon by them as a sacred spot for the burial of their dead, as the Hindoo looks upon the Ganges, and the Persian regards the shrines of Kerbela and Meshed.
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Between the Euphrates and the Arabian plateau lie the sacred cities of Kerbela or Meshed-Hosain, and Nejef or Meshed Ali, with a population of 20,000 to 60,000 each, while
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Kerbela, some twenty odd miles west of the Euphrates and the site of ancient Babylon.
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Missionaries would have us judge Islam by the open improprieties and abuses which occur at Mecca, Kerbela, and other great Moslem centres.
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