Al-Hosayn, on the other hand, was slain and decapitated at Kerbela.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference

Kerbela, some twenty odd miles west of the Euphrates and the site of ancient Babylon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pan-Islam] Reference

Basrah and the site of old Kufah near Kerbela; the well known visitation place in Babylonian Irak.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Suddenly from out the city of Ur (Kerbela), near the ancient mouth of the Euphrates, appears a traveller.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

They were Shias, and had been since the days of Kerbela, and in Hejaz were respected only second to the Emirs of Mecca.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference

There are four great centres of pilgrimage for Shi ` ite Moslems in the vilayet, Samarra, Kazemain, a suburb of Bagdad, Kerbela and Nejef.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

The settled population lies entirely along the banks of these streams and the canals and lagoons westward of the Euphrates, between Kerbela and Nejef.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

Between the Euphrates and the Arabian plateau lie the sacred cities of Kerbela or Meshed-Hosain, and Nejef or Meshed Ali, with a population of 20,000 to 60,000 each, while.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

Hoseyn, son of Ali, and his followers massacred at Kerbela.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04] Reference

Kerbela; the well known visitation place in Babylonian Irak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

Kerbela and Nedjif, goal of pilgrim-caravans from Persia, 78.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria] Reference

Imam, Husayn, at Kerbela: he would hardly withhold it from the murderer of his father.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

Nedjef and at Kerbela, where he met funeral processions more than once on the roads of Irak-Arabi.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1] Reference

Later on Hussain, with his followers, rose in rebellion, and was killed on the plain of Kerbela, A.D.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature] Reference

Kerbela, the holiest of all except Mecca, and he owns a string of beads of the same soul-comforting material as the stone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference

As soon as the weather cleared we made a run to Kerbela -- a lovely town, with miles of gardens surrounding it and two great mosques.    From Wordnik.com.  [War in the Garden of Eden] Reference

His fears were just; Obeidollah, the governor of Cufa, had extinguished the first sparks of an insurrection; and Hosein, in the plain of Kerbela, was encompassed by.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II] Reference

He served in at least one campaign, and then, while still a young man, made a pilgrimage thrice to Mecca and Kerbela, which gained him the title of Haji, or pilgrim.    From Wordnik.com.  [Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society] Reference

The 'strike' took place on a gigantic scale, a million or two certainly being engaged in it, and steps were taken to see the order from Kerbela carried out rigorously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Persia Revisited] Reference

Ali was assassinated near Nejef, which city is sacred to his memory, and his son Husein was killed at Kerbela; so these two cities are the greatest of the Shiah shrines.    From Wordnik.com.  [War in the Garden of Eden] Reference

Kerbela and Nejef, in the quality of great Shiah shrines, had never been particularly friendly to the Turks, who were Sunnis -- but the desert tribes are almost invariably.    From Wordnik.com.  [War in the Garden of Eden] Reference

Job’s tomb near Hulah (seven parasangs from Kerbela) is small.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference

Nejef and Kerbela, far in the rear of Halil Pasha’s army, were in revolt against him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference

Hosayn at Kerbela, and others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference

Kerbela, and the head at Cairo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference

What are the religious people at Kerbela?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Sen. Trent Lott: ‘Iraqis Look Like Iraqis And Americans Look Like Americans’] Reference

Nedjif, see Kerbela.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria] Reference

Kerbela.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference

N. of Kerbela.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition] Reference

Kerbela, Turkey in Asia 65,000.    From Wordnik.com.  [People's Handy Atlas of the World 1910 Census Edition] Reference

“Have you seen Kerbela, Bagdad, Masr, Stamboul?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [How I Found Livingstone] Reference