Ruqayya bint Husayn
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title:
Ruqayya bint Husayn
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Ruqayya bint al-Ḥusayn is said to have been a daughter of Husayn ibn Ali, the third imam in Twelver Shia. Husayn and a small group of his supporters were massacred in the Battle of Karbala in 680 CE on the order of the Umayyad caliph Yazid (r. 680–683). Their women and children were then taken captive and marched to the capital Damascus, where it is said that Ruqayya died at the age of about three, possibly due to the hostility of her captors. The shrine associated with Ruqayya in Damascus is a
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Daughter of Husayn ibn Ali
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruqayya_bint_Husayn
date created:
2006-03-22T04:15:28Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T07:59:30Z
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