Kerbela
Americannoun
noun
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They are also meeting-points of the great and ever-flowing streams of pilgrims to Kerbela viâ Baghdad, said to number annually about one hundred thousand.
From Persia Revisited by Thomas Edward Gordon
This, indeed, would be no more than is being already done by our Government for the Shia Shrines of Kerbela and Meshed Ali, with results entirely beneficial to English popularity and influence.
From The Future of Islam by Wilfred Scawen Blunt
Here the roads branch and we part company with the rest of the party, who are going to Kerbela.
From By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Louisa Jebb
They were in Kerbela some days before Edwards and I had started from Baghdad; and Mersina went straight to the Hindu astrologer, whom Daud subsequently consulted.
From The Treasure of the Tigris A Tale of Mesopotamia by A. F. Mockler Ferryman
His successor, Haji Kazim of Resht, near the time of his death, announced to his disciples at Kerbela that the Manifestation was at hand.
From Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha by Samuel Graham Wilson
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