'No pilgrims': Regional war hushes Iraq's worship tourism
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“In Iraq's holy city of Najaf, the majestic shrine of Imam Ali stands”
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Wikipedia explicitly confirms that the Imam Ali Shrine is located in Najaf, Iraq, and that Najaf is considered one of the holiest cities of Shia Islam.
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— The Imam Ali mosque bombing was the detonation of two car bombs outside the Shia Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf on 29 August 2003. The attack killed 95 people crowded around the mosque for Friday prayers, i…
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— The Imam Ali Shrine (Arabic: حَرَم ٱلْإِمَام عَلِيّ, romanized: Ḥaram al-ʾImām ʿAlī), also known as the Mosque of Ali (Arabic: مَسْجِد عَلِيّ, romanized: Masjid ʿAlī), is a Shi'ite mosque and shrine, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imam_Ali_Shrine
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— Najaf is the capital city of the eponymous Najaf Governorate in central Iraq, about 160 km (99 mi) south of Baghdad. Its estimated population in 2024 was about 1.41 million people. It is widely consid…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najaf
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“its vast courtyards no longer echoing with the multilingual whispers of pilgrims from before the Middle East war”
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The provided evidence consists of general definitions of 'number', 'imam', and 'Ali', but contains no data regarding pilgrim attendance numbers or the impact of war on the volume of visitors to the shrine. No specific evidence was found to confirm or deny the decrease in pilgrims.
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— Ali ibn Abi Talib (Arabic: عليّ بن أبي طالب, romanized: ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib; c. 600 – 661 CE) was the fourth Rashidun caliph who ruled from 656 CE until his assassination in 661, as well as the first S…
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— Imam (; Arabic: إمام, imām; pl.: أئمة, a'immah) is an Islamic leadership position. For Sunni Muslims, imam is most commonly used as the title of a prayer leader of a mosque. In this context, imams may…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imam
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— The Twelve Imams (Arabic: ٱلْأَئِمَّة ٱلْٱثْنَا عَشَر, al-ʾAʾimmah al-ʾIthnā ʿAšar; Persian: دوازده امام, Davâzdah Emâm) are the spiritual and political successors to the Islamic prophet Muhammad in t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Imams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Imams
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