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Kufa

[ koo-fuh, -fa ]

noun

  1. a town in central Iraq: former seat of Abbassid caliphate; Muslim pilgrimage center.


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Example Sentences

On the eastern fluttered gauzy veils, feathery fans, blazing brocade of Mosul, and kerchiefs of Kufa.

A chief resort of pilgrims was the grave of the prophet Ezekiel in the neighborhood of Kufa.

There were also the two celebrated schools of grammarians at Basra and Kufa, soon to merge in the school of Bagdad.

Hassan soon died; the men of the city Kufa then promised to honour Husain if he should come to them.

But in Kufa peace was restored, and this not by military force, but by the headmen of the tribes.

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