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Karbala is a city in Iraq, some 60 miles southwest of Baghdad, celebrated by the fact that the Prophet’s grandson, Hussain ibn Ali was killed and his decapitated body buried there. In fact, Karbala is one of the four Shi’ite shrine cities (with Najaf, Kazemayn, and Samarra) in Iraq known in Shi’ite Islam as ‘atabat-e ‘aliat. When it became a place of pilgrimage, Karbala became known as Mashhad (al-) Hussain.

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* Al-Hannana Mosque

• Kufa
• Mashhad al-Saqt
• Masjid al-Nuqta

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Beynol Haramain, Karbala

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• Imam’s Route from Mecca to Kufa