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Wadi Al-Salam cemetery had included several kinds of burial, which were lower graves, and high graves towers.
There was a way of burial inside special rooms allocated to each family. As well as the way of burial inside valuts, were rooms carved underground and the way of getting down to it was by ladder, which included remains of quite number of the deads. Also there were graves for many prophets, kings, princes and Sultans.
Wadi Al-Salam cemetery is the only cemetery in the world which is so far, the process of burial is still continuing to day since more than years. The cemetery is an authentic site did not extend a hand of modernity and change, though plagued by the evidence that there are customs and traditions tide to deal with the cemetery and made it a place with a particular sanctity cannot by pass it or use in a way effects in its authenticity and the integrity of the site is guaranteed with religious beliefs practiced by Muslims, and which require respect for the sanctity of the grave and surrounding it with holiness, especially as there is a special law protecting the site, General Endowment Act, No.
And law No. Usually, graves of guardians and dutifuls were consider the center for the emergence of religious cities and a place frequented by people for the visit and blessing. Mainly be a center to bury the dead as was the case in Wadi Al-Salam cemetery in Najaf. After the burial of the prince of believers, Ali Ibn Abi Talib , it is the second cemetery established in Islam after the cemetery of Baqi in Medina which included the graves of Muslims in that period, including the companions of the prophet Mohammed, But Wadi Al-Salam cemetery contains graves built with baked bricks and plaster and it rises at different levels.
While the graves of the cemetery of Baqi are low and are not built with any material and there are in the Muslims world today graves belonging to the dead Muslims just like the tomb of the cemetery in Egypt only those that cemetery on the capacity did not arise because buried one of the companions or guardians. These hydrological shifts were to have religious implications. Most notable was the consolidation and spread of Shi'ism.
As the shrine city of Najaf gained access to water again, its notables and holy men began to wield considerable power in the area. The Ottomans were expelled in an uprising in , following which the city fell under the rule of the British Empire. The sheikhs of Najaf rebelled in , killing the British governor of the city, that is Sayyed Mahdi Al-Awadi, and cutting off grain supplies to the Anaza , a tribe allied with the British.
In retaliation the British besieged the city and cut off its water supply. The rebellion was put down and the rule of the sheikhs was forcibly ended.
During the invasion of Iraq , Najaf was a key target of the invading United States forces. The city was encircled during heavy fighting on 26 March and was captured on 3 April This uprising led to the American troops arriving in the city in the wake of the Spanish withdrawal.
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Najaf (Arabic: ٱلنَّجَف) or Al-Najaf al-Ashraf (Arabic: ٱلنَّجَف ٱلْأَشْرَف), also known as Baniqia (Arabic: بَانِيقِيَا) is a city in central Iraq about km Nearby is the Wadi-us-Salaam cemetery, the largest in the world. Archaeological discoveries show the existence of a populace dating back to the 1st century BC. Najaf. According to Shiʿi tradition, the seminary (ḥawza) in Najaf, Iraq is with the famous scholar Shaykh al-Ṭūsī (/‒/). CrossRef citations to date highest centre of Shiʿi studies and spiritual leadership, and enjoyed this Shrine-colleges (mashhad-madrasa), which developed near shrines.
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