Imam Hussain Holy Shrine acquires 1,000 historical documents on the city of Karbala from the Ottoman archives

Imam Hussain Holy Shrine announced that it had acquired 1,000 historical documents on the holy city of Karbala from the Ottoman archives in Istanbul, Turkey.

The Director of the Karbala Center for Studies and Researches Abdul Amir al-Qureishi said, “Our center was able to acquire rare historical documents on Karbala that will be included in the highly anticipated project of Karbala Civilizational Encyclopedia.”

Al-Qureishi added that fifty volumes of the unique encyclopedia have been published and are available to researchers, archeologists and historians.

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