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Encyclopedia Britannica



KUFA

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 941 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KRO-LAP
KUFA , a Moslem city, situated on the shore of the Hindieh canal, about 4 M. E. by N. of Nejef (32 4' N., 440 20' E.), was founded by the
Arabs
  after the
battle
  of Kadesiya in A.D. 638 as one of the two capitals of the new territory of Irak, the whole country being divided into the sawads, or districts, of Basra and Kufa. The
caliph
  'Ali made it his residence and the
capital
  of his
caliphate
 . After the removal of the
capital
  to Bagdad, in the
middle
  of the following
century
 , Kufa lost its importance and began to fall into decay. At the beginning of the 19th
century
 , travellers reported extensive and important ruins as marking the ancient site. Since that time the ruins have served as quarries for bricks for the building of Nejef, and at the present time little remains but holes in the ground, representing excavations for bricks, with broken fragments of brick and glass strewn over a considerable area. A
mosque
  still stands on the spot where 'Ali is reputed to have worshipped. (For
history
  see
CALIPHATE
 .)


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