Battle of Karbala
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Sep 12, 2026
Claire M. LopezGUEST
whom the Sunnis simply say will be a descendant of Muhammad, but no particular identity.
Claire M. LopezGUEST
But the Shiites, after the Battle of Karbala in 680 in what is today Iraq, followed a father-son, father-son line of descent down imam after imam until it came to number 12 in the 9th century, around the 870s or so.
Claire M. LopezGUEST
And that was a little boy.
Claire M. LopezGUEST
Unfortunately, he disappeared, either hidden away by his family for fear of assassination, or perhaps he fell down a well in a little town called Jamkuran, which is not far from the Iranian theological seminary city of Qom.
Brian StahlHOST
And in general, when you look at a lot of the rhetoric that comes out of the Muslim world and the Arab world in particular, there's a really strong and rich appreciation for history.
Brian StahlHOST
We'll sometimes have Arab politicians just referring to the Battle of Karbala in 680 and other really long, long past events.
Brian StahlHOST
And I was curious, what's your take on how effective that symbolism or that imagery of the Crusades was for the Muslims who heard bin Laden's fatwa against the United States? Like, did you or would you say that that was a powerful symbol or a powerful invocation when he used that language?
Gabriel Said ReynoldsGUEST
Absolutely.