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Tourism
The Shrine of Shareefa:
the Golden Dome Touching the Sky
Salam al-Taèe
Tourists coming to Iraq will al-Taff. her.’
witness many holy and antique The Secretariat General of the He added that ‘We found two
places, for this country is, after Shrine of Lady Shareefa, Mr. documents in the shrine; the
all, considered to be the cradle Ahmad Hasan Muhammad, told first was written by the historian
of civilisation. They will surely Hussein Revivalism more about al-Sheikh Muhammad Haidar,
encounter many new things that the shrine, saying that according who proved the exact place of
increase their knowledge and to the documents that they have, the shrine according to an aerial
discover places they had never the history of the shrine's current survey map. The second goes
before heard of. building dates back to about 200 back to a genealogist called
In the district of Abu Gharq in years ago. However, he added Mutir al-Husseine and refers
Babylon, the city of antiquities, that ‘In spite of our searching in to the location of the shrine
lies the shrine of Lady Shareefa, historical records, we have been and the date of her martyrdom,
a member of Ahl al-Bayt. The unable to verify the real name of confirming that she was martyred
historians say that Lady Shareefa Lady Shareefa, and this name is after the Battle of al-Taff. However
was martyred after the Battle of only one that we have given to no one actually mentioned her
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