Kufa

[ koo-fuh, -fa ]

noun

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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