There were also the two celebrated schools of grammarians at Basra and Kufa, soon to merge in the school of Bagdad.
Sedjur said that he knew the Residency, and would drop down in a kufa, so as to be under the wall here as the moon rose.
Thence it is a day's journey to the city of Kufa, where there is the sepulchre of King Jeconiah.
His body was crucified in Kufa, his head sent to Damascus and thence to Medina.
Reinforced by many Kharijites out of the northern provinces, he marched against Kufa.
