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Mashhad [a] (Persian: مشهد; [mæʃˈhæd] ⓘ) [b] is the second-most-populous city in Iran, located in the relatively remote north-east of the country [11] about 900 kilometres (560 miles) from Tehran. [12] In the Central District of Mashhad County, it serves as the capital of Razavi Khorasan province, the county, and the district. [13]
The Imam Reza shrine (Persian: حرم امام رضا, romanized: Haram-e Emâm Rezâ, lit. 'Sanctuary of Imam Reza'), located in Mashhad, Iran, is an Islamic shrine containing the remains of Ali al-Rida, the eighth Imam of Shia Islam.
1598 - Mashhad taken by forces of Abbas I of Persia; Uzbeks defeated. [7] 1722 - Afghan Abdalis in power. [7] 1726 - Mashhad besieged by Persian forces. [7] 1753 - Mashhad besieged by forces of Afghan Ahmad Shah Durrani. [7] 1803 - Mashhad besieged by forces of Fath Ali Shah. [7] 1849 - Mashhad taken by forces of Husam al-Saltana. [12]
But he did not get much success. In Mashhad, Caucasian, Badkobei, Irvani, Shirvani, and Quchani students accompanied him. Another scholar who made a pact with Quchani and accompanied him was Haj Seyyed Asdaullah Qazvini Mujtahid. [13] In Mashhad, nobles, families, heads of nomads and clans, and leaders were against the constitution.
Many Jews of Mashhad, including the chief of the local Jewish community, Mullah Mahdi Aqajan, served as agents of the British government. [2] This fact, in addition to the recent withdrawal of Iran from Herat in 1838 under diplomatic pressure from the British government, created an increasingly hostile atmosphere towards the Jews in Mashhad.
The Mashhad of Sayyida Ruqayya (Arabic: مَشْهَد ٱلسَّيِّدَة رُقَيَّة, romanized: Mashhad As-Sayyida Ruqayya), [1] sometimes referred to as the Mausoleum or Tomb of Sayyida Ruqayya, [2] [3] is a 12th-century Islamic religious shrine and mosque in Cairo, Egypt.
Mashhad al-Husayn in Aleppo, restored and with steel-frame roof added. In Aleppo, the Mashhad al-Husayn from the Ayyubid period is the most important of Syrian medieval buildings. [26] The shrine of al-Husayn was built on a place indicated to a shepherd by a holy man who appeared to him in a dream, and was built by members of the local Shia ...
Mashhad's ruler [clarification needed] had ordered his men to enter Jewish homes and mobs attacked the Jewish community, burning down the synagogue, looting homes, abducting girls, and killing between 30 and 40 people. With knives held to their throats, the Jewish patriarchs were forced to vocally proclaim their "allegiance" to Islam as it was ...