Noorjoo
The Noorjoo Magazine
The real places behind historical events, mapped onto today’s world.
Karbala is a real, living city today, not just the name of a historical event. It sits in Iraq, about 100 kilometers southwest of Baghdad, and every year it welcomes millions of pilgrims from around the world. Karbala on the Map Today Karbala is the capital of Karbala Governorate in Iraq, located near the Euphrates […]
During the ten years Prophet Muhammad led the Muslim community from Medina (622–632 CE), a handful of major military and political events shaped the young community’s survival — from the Battle of Badr to the almost bloodless conquest of Mecca. Below is a dated timeline of the eight most significant ones, with each site’s modern […]
The Hijra route from Mecca to Yathrib — the oasis town later renamed Medina — wasn’t the straight shot north you’d expect. To throw Quraysh trackers off the trail, the Prophet Muhammad and his companion Abu Bakr first doubled back south, then took a longer, unconventional path that stretched the journey to roughly eight or […]
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