Kerbela
Americannoun
noun
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Later on Hussain, with his followers, rose in rebellion, and was killed on the plain of Kerbela, A.D.
From Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature by Arbuthnot, F. F.
This beautiful woman of genius—poet, scholar and theologian, was a pupil at Kerbela, of Haji Kazim, the chief of the Sheikhis.
From Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha by Wilson, Samuel Graham
The settled population lies entirely along the banks of these streams and the canals and lagoons westward of the Euphrates, between Kerbela and Nejef.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
The dead are often conveyed hundreds of miles to be interred in Nejef and Kerbela.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris
Ibrahim suggested in a whisper that they had withdrawn farther into the ruins to avoid observation by passengers along the direct route from Kerbela to Meshed Ali.
From Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad by Strang, Herbert
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