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Kufa as a Center of Governance
Founded in 638 CE as a military garrison, Kufa became one of the most consequential cities in early Islamic history — the capital of Caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib, the birthplace of the Iraqi legal tradition, a major center of Arabic grammar and hadith scholarship, and the city where the Abbasid revolution was launched.
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