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[6] [7] Karbala is the capital of Karbala Governorate, and has an estimated population of 691,100 people (2024). [8] The city, best known as the location of the Battle of Karbala in 680 AD, or for the shrines of Hussain and Abbas, [9] [10] is considered a holy city for Shia Muslims. Tens of millions of Shi'ite Muslims visit the site twice a year.
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.
The Battle of Karbala (Arabic: مَعْرَكَة كَرْبَلَاء, romanized: maʿraka Karbalāʾ) was fought on 10 October 680 (10 Muharram in the year 61 AH of the Islamic calendar) between the army of the second Umayyad caliph Yazid I (r.
[10]: 28 The sack horrified the "Sunni scholarly establishment", but its aftermath also gave fundamentalism a degree of intellectual credibility in the Sunni literary salons of Baghdad, further heightening sectarian tensions. [11]: 200 Saudi ruler Abd al-Azeez would soon be assassinated by a Shia in a revenge attack. Following 'Abd al-Azeez's ...
The 2003 attack on Karbala was an unsuccessful strike on the Iraqi Republican Guard's Medina Division by the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The Medina Division was mostly deployed along the Karbala gap, west of the city of Karbala itself. The Iraqi division was targeted as it was the best equipped Iraqi unit, and ...
Husayn was killed on 10 Muharram 61 AH (10 October 680 CE), alongside most of his male relatives and his small retinue, in the Battle of Karbala against the army of the Umayyad caliph Yazid ibn Mu'awiya (r. 680–683), having been surrounded for some days and deprived of the drinking water of the nearby Euphrates river.
Abbas, riding a white horse in the Battle of Karbala, oil on canvas, c. 1868–1933. On the morning of Ashura (10 Muharram), Husayn organized his supporters, some seventy-two men, [17] and designated Abbas as his standard-bearer, an indication of his privileged position among the companions. [1]
The uprising began on 27 June 1915, [5] when the Bani Hasan tribe attacked government buildings in Karbala. [6] Ottoman deserters were also amongst the rebels. [4] The rebel tribesmen, lacking any centralized leadership, [2] burned municipal buildings, government schools, a hospital, and 200 dwellings in the suburbs, most of them belonging to Persians living and trading in the Arab community. [5]