Governorate

Najaf province, one of the eighteen provinces of , based in Najaf, a city of a religious nature.

Najaf Governorate النجف Najaf Province — Province —

Coordinates: 31°7′N 43°48′ECoordinates: 31°7′N 43°48′E

Country Iraq

Capital Najaf Area • Total 28,824 km2 (11,129 sq mi) Population (2003) 930,000

• Total

An Najaf) (or Najaf Province) is a النجفففف :Najaf Governorate ( province in southern Iraq. The capital is the city of Najaf. The other major city is Al Kufah. Both cities are holy to Shi'ah Muslims, who form the majority of the population. Prior to 1976 it was part of the Diwaniya Province, which also included present day Al and Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate.

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Site

One of the provinces of Najaf in southern Iraq, far from the capital , 161 km. The city is located on the edge of the plateau of western Iraq, southwest of the capital Baghdad. The rising city 70 m above sea level, bounded on the north and north-east city of (a town about 80 km), and South and West Low Sea of Najaf, Abu Sakhir (which is, located about about 18 km), on the east city of (a town about 10 km

Establishment

Najaf today is the Najaf-Kufa (as distinct from Najaf confusion), the Arab town was an old summer retreat for Manadhirh (kings of confusion), and was before the Islamic conquest dotted with monasteries, Christianity, and Tmusrt town and expanded and crowded population thanks to the presence of the tomb of Imam Ali - - which gave the city the nature of respect, and became a center of religious leader and the toast of the scholars, and Najaf, the Arabic name means (Almngeoff) collected Najaf (a place which is not surmounted by the water) because it is the land of high-like Almsnah repel water than its environs are Kalnjd and dam, and Najaf, meaning hill, and also named the names of many of them contained in the words of the people of the house, and from what was customary to Alstnhm namely: Bannagaa, Judi, Knoll, the back of Kufa, the western, tongue, phase, and some are more widely used Najaf and Ahlgre and scene, and Roy said Najaf was a great mountain, which is that Ibn Noah, in which: (equated to Mount Aasmna of water) and then cut off pieces and carefully sand became the will of God, and that was called the sea (Ni) and then dried up after that was said (Ni-dried) and called for Najafa it's lighter on the tongues.

Features

Najaf, a town wide and located on a hill high above the sandy spacious, overlooking the north-east over a wide area of the domes and tombs that the student and which is still conspicuous, and this tomb the great called the Valley of Peace, and supervised from the west on the Sea of Najaf, dry, and watched the next From a distance the - - which is located in the center of the city is reflected above the dome like a piece of gold Alapreez affect the sun brighter. The area of the city and about 1338 km 2, straight streets and spacious Amaradtha great high and markets a broad organization, especially the big market, which starts from the eastern wall of the city and ends at the courtyard of Imam Ali .

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The old stores

Ela locality: Located in the southeastern corner of the courtyard-Sharif, now called Mishraq locality. Locality Architecture: Located north of the locality of Ela in the northeast corner of the courtyard, the largest stores of old Najaf. Locality Ahoiesh: Located west of the locality of architecture, overlooking the northwest corner of the courtyard. Buraq locality is situated south of the locality of Ahoiesh, the latest shops Najaf.

Modern residential neighborhoods: Al Amir, Al-Ghadeer, Al-Saad, Alhanana neighborhood, the new neighborhood, a neighborhood housing, neighborhood, scientists, Muthanna neighborhood. Neighborhood of mercy. Yarmouk district. Zahraa neighborhood. Qadissiya district. Abbas neighborhood. The district forward. District of birth. District engineers. District meet. The university district. Neighborhood of Abu Taleb. Martyr Sadr neighborhood. Sadr City III. District of Maysan. Neighborhood peace. District justice. Streets

Street, City Road, the Prophet (PBUH), Imam Zein Al-Abidine - - Street, Imam Sadiq - - Street, Kufa, hasan bin Sharhabeel Street, Street Khurnq Street, Sadeer Street, Tusi, Al Shahid al-Mihrab (Abu Sakhir previously). Mr. Street Jawad inch. Omar Bin Al Khattab Street. Mustafa Jamal al-Din Street. Street, Abu Bakr. Street, Mr. Mahdi Bahr al-Ulum. Askariyya Street

Mracdha and Mqamatha

The shrine of the Imam of the faithful Ali ibn Abi Talib peace be upon him - - The shrine of Prophet Hud (AS), and the shrine of Prophet Saleh (AS) - - The shrine of Imam Zein El Abidine peace be upon him - - The shrine of Imam Mahdi, Hegel is his private Place of Mohammed bin tap. Serve as a paper girl Hassan Mujtaba peace be upon him - -

And several shrines in Kufa, including: the shrine of Muslim bin Aqeel (AS) shrine of Hani ibn Urwa (RIP), and the shrine

(Kadhim shrine of children (p Maytham Tammar (RIP), and the shrine of the chosen bin Abu Obeida Thaqafi. The shrine of Prophet Hood

(P) * to the shrine of Prophet Saleh (AS)

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The shrine of Prophet Adam (AS) The shrine of Prophet Noah (AS)

Where Nqra to visit the Imam Ali, "Peace to you and Djieik Adam and Noah," and here was devised Shiite clerics and Muslims that Adam and Noah, buried to the side of Imam Ali [citation needed] and came to visit, "Peace to you and Garrick Hood and Saleh," and takes their place is now known in Najaf. mosques

Mosque Alhanana, and the Mosque of 'Imraan ibn Shahin, and the Mosque of the green, and the Mosque of the head, and the Mosque of Bilal ibn Rabah, a mosque, Sheikh Jaafar Shushtari, and the Mosque of goldsmiths, and the Mosque of Khalid ibn al-Walid, a mosque to be, and the Mosque of Al-Zaid bin Haritha, and the Mosque of Sheikh's jewels, and the Mosque of Haji Mirza Hussein Khalili, and the Mosque of Abu Bakr, Aisha girl, and the Mosque of Sheikh commendable, and the Mosque of Sheikh Morteza, and the mosque of India, Msadjadheik Turaihi, and the Mosque of Al-spectacular, and the Mosque Abdullah bin Roakhh, and Albhbhana Haj Hussein mosque, mosque, Allama Hassan Shirazi. Fatima Zahra mosque. Mustafa mosque. Bsaibsi mosque. schools

School Miqdad Alsiauri or (School of Selimiye), and a school of Shaykh Mullah Abdullah (author of the footnote in the logic), and a school-Mirza Hassan Shirazi, and a school- Sadr Azam, a school Albroujrda, school Cbria School, textures, and a school Aljohrgi, a school Alaervani School, Mohammed Amin al-Qazwini, The School House flag (of Mr. Khoei Jerusalem, Sarah) (demolished in 1991), and a school of Indian School, Acharpiani School, Abdul Aziz al-Baghdadi, a school of the faithful (p) and a school-Haj Hussein Khalili, Minor, and a school Alakhund major, and a school Alakhund Central School, Alakhund Minor, and a school with, and a school-Bukhaari, Taking bin Jblmadrsh House of Wisdom, and the University of Najaf religious school, a school secretary nation Amer bin surgeon. libraries

Arab library, library flags in the Mosque of al-Tusi, a library Husseiniya Alchoctria, a library school textures, and the school library Cbria, Library of my school-Khalili, big and small, and the Library of Jaafar Sheikh large, and the Library of Sheikh Fakhruddin Turaihi, and the Library of Science Association, and the Library of Abdul Aziz al- Baghdadi, a library forum posting transferred to the School of Jurisprudence in St. Kufa, and the public library, a library Albroujrda, and the Library of the University of Najaf, and the Library of Sheikh Mohammed Baqir al-Isfahani, a library Alakhund, a library- Rahim, and the Library of Umayyad, and a library of Imam al-Hakim General http://www.alhakeemlib.org, and the Library of the faithful (p), and a library-Yacoubi,

4 a library-Nouri, and the Library of rhetoric, and a library of preachers and mullahs Library (attributed to the family of denominations), and the Library of Shaikh Nu'man, and there are many other libraries on behalf of the houses of Najaf.

Flags of Najaf

Najaf, the land of prophets and righteous people, scientists and writers, it is the prophets Adam, Noah, Hud, Salih peace be upon them,

Khabab art-bin (v 37 years e). Sahl ibn Hanif (died 38 years e). Lakhraim bin acromion (v year 41 AH). Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (died in year 42 AH). Shaggy bin Qays (d. 42 AH years). Division of marauding bin (t year 50 AH). Samra bin Junadah (v in 59 e). Hani bin Urwa (v year 61 AH). Maytham Tammar (died in year 61 AH). Abdullah bin dripping (v year 61 AH). Zayd ibn Arqam (v 68 years e). Adi bin Hatim Tai (died 68 years e). Jabir bin Samra (v year 74 AH). Kamil bin Ziyad (d. 82 years old e). Abdullah bin fulfilled (v year 81 AH). Sheikh Tusi (died in year 460 AH). Mr. Din Ali bin may peacock (d. AH 664 years). Jamal al-Din ibn peacock (d. AH 673 years). Brand jewelry (c year 726 AH). Sacred al Ardebili (c year 990 AH). Sheikh Fakhruddin Turaihi (died 1087 years e). Algerian Sheikh Ahmad (d. 1151 years e). Mr. Muhammad Mahdi Bahr al-Ulum (d. 1212 AH year). Mr. Abdullah bin inch (died in 1242 AH). Sheikh Ahmed Alnraca (d. 1245 years e). Sheikh Morteza Ansari (died in year 1281 AH). Sheikh Bin Sheikh Mohammed Radhi al-Najafi (d. 1290 years). Mr. Mahdi al-Qazwini (died in year 1300 AH). Mr. Mohammad Hassan Shirazi (d. 1312 AH year). Hajj Hussein al-Khalili (d. 1326 years e). Mr. Mohammed Saeed al-Haboubi (d. 1333 AH). Mark Ali Aldamad (d. 1336 AH). Mr. Mohammad Reza Istrabadi (died in 1346, e). Rhetorical scholar Muhammad Jawad (d. 1354 AH). Sheikh Alnaúana (d. 1355H years).

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Zia, Sheikh Al-Iraqi (d. 1361 AH year). Mr. Abu-Hasan Isfahani (d. 1365 AH). Mr. Muhammad Kazim Yazdi (d. in 1370 e). Sheikh Mohamed Sheikh Ali bin Hussein detector cover (v year 1373 AH). Mr. Mohsen al-Hakim (d. 1390 AH year). Mr. Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei (d. 1413 AH). Mr. Abdul Top Sabzevari (d. 1414 AH). Mr. Joseph, Mr. Muhsin al-Hakim (d. 1991 CE). .(ban Khafaji (d. 2009, mچPoet Haji Yaqub Yusuf Al Mr. Mohammed Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr (d., 1999). Mr. Jawad inch (died in 1982).

Former districts of Najaf

Called shops or parties, which are four: one bright side Mishraq party Ahoiesh party architecture and was formerly home to watch and are displaced from Persia, but after the expansion of Najaf and the destruction of its wall resorted viewing to new neighborhoods built in Najaf and mingled with residents of the four parties seen among the Arabs has been replaced Most of its shops, as in the wall where the shops are built adjacent to the Radio Knowledge now

Najaf provincial council……………………………………. http://najafpc.net/ar

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