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Kufa

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Kufa , former Mesopotamian city, near the Euphrates River, c.110 mi (177 km) S of Baghdad. Founded in 638, Kufa soon rivaled Basra in size. The Arab governor of Iraq resided there until 702. For a time, Kufa was the seat of the Abbasid caliphate, and Ali, the fourth caliph, was murdered there. Celebrated as a major seat of Arab learning, the city was also a continual source of political and religious unrest. It was repeatedly plundered by the Karmathians in the 10th cent. and lost its importance. Kufa now remains an uninhabited ruin surrounded by desert. Author not available, KUFA.... Read more

Kufic
Kufic an early angular form of the Arabic alphabet found chiefly in decorative inscriptions. Recorded from the early 18th century, the word comes from the name Kufa , a city south of Baghdad, because the script was attributed to the city's scholars. Read more

Jabir
or Geber , fl. 8th cent., Arab alchemist and physician, originally named Jabir ibn Hayyan. He is believed to have lived at Kufa and at Baghdad. A great number of works on alchemy, many of them unpublished, have been attributed to him, but scholars disagree... Read more

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