Imam AL-Hussaine,s Shrine in the Writings of foreign Globetrotters and officials | ||
| KARBALĀʾ HERITAGE Quarterly Authorized Journal Specialized in Karbalāʾ Heritage | ||
| Article 1, Volume 3, Issue 2, June 2016, Pages 99-140 | ||
| Author | ||
| Asst. Prof .Dr .Emad Jasim Hassan Al-Mosawi | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Karbalaa City is one of the Holy Islamic cities because it embraces Imam AI-Hussein's body (peace be up on him).it has been a loadstar of the world since it is considered as an Islamic town ,and it also has a reputation and holiness that are related to the AL-Imam AL-Hussain martyrdom(peace be up on him)that happened in this city .AL-Imam AL-Hussain shrine became as a minaret that shines the way of all the oppressed people in the world who follow his martyrology and learnt from his sacrifices in order to achieve their aims. The reputation, which karbalaa got ,encouraged many foreign globetrotters (e.g.,pedro of Portugal, pietro dale valle (Italian). olivie, Abi Talib khan , carsten Niebuhr and others who visited Iraq through the centuries)to came to karbalaa to see the shrine of this leader (AL-Imam AL-Hussain)who sacrifices his life for achieving the justice, equity and resisting the invalidity .Therefore, there are many globetrotters who wrote about AL-Imam AL-Hussain shrine in different descriptive ways. Their writings also included the holiness and significance of karbalaa according to Shiites. One of these holiness and significance is represented in bringing the corpses from different countries to bury them close to this chaste shrine to get blessing and supplicating .Moreover, those globetrotters considered visiting AL-Imam AL-Hussain shrine as similar to pilgrimage. Most of them talked abut the goods that was sold near this holy shrine and the invasion of wahhabism to this holy shrine | ||
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