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najaf

Holy Najaf

Najaf al-Ashraf is a city in central-south Iraq about 160 km south of Baghdad. Its estimated population in 2013 was 1,000,000 people.

karbala

Holy Karbala

Muslims consider Karbala to be one of the holiest places in the world, second only to Mecca and Najaf. Karbala” (also known as Karbala or Kerbela)

Sammarra

Samarra

In 836 the Abbasid Caliph Al-Mu’tasim shifted the Capital of the Islamic world from the 74 year old Baghdad to the newly built Samarra.

Baghdad

Baghdad

Baghdad, also spelled Bagdad, Arabic Baghdād, formerly Madīnat al-Salām (Arabic: “City of Peace”), city, capital of Iraq and capital of Baghdad governorate, central Iraq.

Kufa-Mosque

Kufa

Kufa was the successor of Al-Madina (in today’s Saudi Arabia) as the capital of the Islamic world. This achievement is not to be understated.

Sammarra

Samarra

In 836 the Abbasid Caliph Al-Mu’tasim shifted the Capital of the Islamic world from the 74 year old Baghdad to the newly built Samarra.