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Also Known As Al-Kūfah • Kufa

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ʿAlī: Arabic calligraphy
ʿAlī
Muslim caliph
Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, Abū Mūsā
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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