Holy Shrine of Imam Ali (a): Difference between revisions

In the upper floor of the courtyard, there are 52 rooms, each of which has a veranda facing the courtyard. These 52 rooms make up a seminary. Behind each room, there is a hallway that leads to a stairway (to exit the seminary). These rooms were used for classes and as a place to rest by students of the Islamic seminary. After the uprising of the Iraqi people in the month of [[Safar]] [[1377]]/1958, the Baathist regime evicted the students of the seminary from these rooms with the intent of weakening and destroying the Shia seminary. From then on, these rooms have remained empty.<ref>ʿAlawī, ''Rāhnamā-yi muṣawwar-i safar-i zīyāratī-yi Iraq'', p. 123.</ref>