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Najaf

النجف

A city in Iraq containing the shrine of Ali ibn Abi Talib (may God be pleased with him), which Ibn Battuta mentions on his way to Iraq.

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Levant & Iraq
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Najaf is a city in Iraq, where the shrine of Ali ibn Abi Talib is. Ibn Battuta mentioned it on his way to Iraq. 1 The coordinates recorded for it come from GeoNames, for a modern town of the same name 2. Matching it to the ancient site needs an additional source.

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Burial place of
بدر بن حسنويه
Home of
Ruhollah Khomeini
Contains
Imam Ali shrine (Najaf)· Wadi-us-Salaam cemetery

People and things also explored

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani· Ali Khamenei· Imam Ali shrine (Najaf)· Wadi-us-Salaam cemetery· بدر بن حسنويه· Ruhollah Khomeini

Sources

  1. Rihla of Ibn Battuta (Tuhfat al-nuzzar), Arabic edition 1958
  2. GeoNames gazetteer
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islam.museum contributors. “Najaf”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/najaf/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (1934–2017) was an Iranian Shia cleric and politician and a founding figure of the Islamic Republic. Trained at the Qom seminary under Borujerdi and Khomeini, he was speaker of parliament from 1980 to 1989 and acting commander-in-chief during the war with Iraq, then president of Iran from 1989 to 1997; he chaired the Expediency Discernment Council until his death and the Assembly of Experts from 2007 to 2011. Born at Bahreman near Rafsanjan, he died in Tehran on 8 January 2017.