- Kufa (Arabic: الْكُوفَة "al-
Kūfah"), also
spelled Kufah, is a city in Iraq,
about 170
kilometres (110 mi)
south of Baghdad, and 10
kilometres (6.2 mi)...
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Kufah may
refer to:
Ovophis okinavensis, a.k.a. the
Okinawa pitviper, a
venomous pitviper species found in the
Ryukyu Islands of ****an
Alternative English...
- Al-
Kūfah began as a
military base ca. 638 near Ḥīrah on the
western branch of the
Euphrates river and grew, as had its
counterpart at Al-Basrah also grown...
- Iraq. The
capital is the city of Najaf, with
another major city
being Al
Kufah. Both
cities are holy to Shia Muslims, who form the
majority of the po****tion...
- The
Great Mosque of Kufa (Arabic: مَسْجِد ٱلْكُوفَة ٱلْمُعَظَّم/ٱلْأَعْظَم, romanized: Masjid al-Muʿaẓẓam/al-ʾAʿaẓam), or
Masjid al-Kufa, is
located in...
- left bank of the
Kūfah arm of the Euphrates, at a day's
journey to the
north of
Kūfah city,
probably near the town of Kanṭarah-al-
Kūfah . . . [which] probably...
- (692/693 CE) or AH 74 (693/694 CE), in
Bishr ibn Marwān
province in Al-
Kūfah. Abū ‘Abdir-Raḥmān was
known to have
discussed the Qur’ān with Tajwīd, an...
- to legend, the body of Ali was
placed on a
camel which was
driven from
Kufah. The
camel stopped a few
miles west of the city
where the body was secretly...
-
surnamed Abū ‘Abd Allāh (أبو عبد الله), and Abū al-Ḥasan ‘Alī ibn
Hamzah of al-
Kūfah ( d. ca. 804 or 812) was
preceptor to the sons of
caliph Hārūn al-Rashīd...
- 09 Dhu al-Hijjah,
martyrdom of
Muslim ibn ʿAqīl and Hani ibn
Urwah in
Kufah. It is also a day of
supererogatory fasting – AH 60. 12 Dhu al-Hijjah or...
