Kūfah: Quick Facts

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Iraq

country, Asia

ʿAlī

Muslim caliph

Abū Mūsā Jābir ibn Ḥayyān

Muslim alchemist

Abū Ḥanīfah

Muslim jurist and theologian

al-Mutanabbī

Muslim poet

Abolqasem al-Khoei

Iranian cleric

Khālid al-Qasrī

Umayyad governor of Iraq

Ibn Qutaybah

Muslim author

al-Mukhtār ibn Abī ʿUbayd al-Thaqafī

Muslim leader

Abū al-ʿAtāhiyah

Arab poet

Ḥammād al-Rāwiyah

Iraqi scholar

Hishām ibn al-Kalbī

Arab scholar

Arslān al-Muẓaffar al-Basāsīrī

Islamic military leader

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