Ezekiel is the central protagonist of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible.
A tomb is a repository for the remains of the dead. It is generally any structurally enclosed interment space or burial chamber, of varying sizes. Placing a corpse into a tomb can be called immurement, and is a method of final disposition, as an alternative to for example cremation or burial.
Alqosh is a Chaldean village in the Nineveh plains of northern Iraq. It is a sub-district of the Tel Kaif District and is 45 km north of the city of Mosul. It is the site of a military base of the Nineveh Plain Protection Units. Sami Zubaida calls Alqosh "another Assyrian center" when stating that Colonel R. S. Stafford, the British Administrative Inspector for Mosul, said that, at the time of the Simele massacre, another massacre was planned for there.
Dhu al-Kifl, also spelled Zu al-Kifl, pronounced Zu l-Kifl, is an Islamic prophet who has been identified with various Hebrew Bible prophets, most commonly Ezekiel. It is believed that he lived for roughly 75 years and that he preached in what is modern day Iraq. Dhu al-Kifl is believed to have been exalted by Allah to a high station in life and is chronicled in the Quran as a man of the "Company of the Good". Although not much is known of Dhul-Kifl from other historical sources, all the writings from classical commentators, such as Ibn Ishaq and Ibn Kathir, speak of Dhu al-Kifl as a prophetic, saintly man who remained faithful in daily prayer and worship.
Zakho is a city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, at the centre of the eponymous Zakho District of the Dohuk Governorate, located a few kilometers from the Iraq–Turkey border. The city has a population of 410,000.
Amadiya is a Kurdish town and popular summer resort and Hill station along a tributary to the Great Zab in the Dahuk Governorate of Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The city is situated 4,600 feet (1,400 m) above sea level.
Jews of Kurdistan are the ancient Eastern Jewish communities, inhabiting the region known as Kurdistan roughly covering parts of northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, northeastern Syria and southeastern Turkey. Until their immigration to Israel in the 1940s and early 1950s, the Jews of Kurdistan lived as closed ethnic communities. The Jews of Kurdistan largely spoke Aramaic and Kurdish dialects, in particular the Kurmanji dialect in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Religion in Iraq was overwhelmingly Muslim as of 2015, with over 95-98% of the population practicing Islam. Christianity, including Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Assyrian Church of the East, accounted for 1% and other religions made up the remaining 1-4%. Yazidism and religious syncretism practiced by minorities in Iraq includes Mandaeism, Shabakism, and Yarsanism accounts for 1.5%. The Iraqi Jewish community no longer exists aside from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
King David's Tomb is a site considered by some to be the burial place of biblical king David of Israel, according to a Christian, Jewish, and Muslim tradition beginning in the 9th or 12th century CE, some two millennia after the traditional time of David. The majority of historians and archaeologists do not consider the site to be the actual resting place of King David.
Al Kifl is a town in southeastern Iraq on the Euphrates River, between Najaf and Al Hillah. The population in and near the town is about 15,000. Kifl is the location of Al-Nukhailah Mosque, containing the tomb of Dhul-Kifl who is believed be the biblical prophet Ezekiel. A project to renovate the tomb and develop it as a tourist attraction has proven controversial. The town was once a significant Jewish pilgrimage site and home to a community of Iraqi Jews until the late 1940s.
The Tomb of Daniel is the traditional burial place of the biblical and Islamic prophet Daniel. Various locations have been named for the site, but the tomb in Susa, Iran (Persia), is the most widely accepted, it being first mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela, who visited Asia between 1160 and 1163.
Bamarni is a village and sub-district in Dohuk Governorate in Kurdistan Region, Iraq. It is located in the Sapna valley in the district of Amadiya.
Ezekiel's Tomb, located in Al Kifl, Iraq, is believed by Jews and Muslims to be the tomb of the biblical prophet Ezekiel. While the site is the oldest and most important Jewish religious site in Iraq; today it forms part of the Al-Nukhailah Mosque complex.
Ezra's Tomb or the Tomb of Ezra is a Shi'ite Islam and Jewish shrine, located in the settlement of Al-ʻUzair, in the Qalat Saleh district, in the Maysan Province of Iraq; on the western shore of the Tigris that was popularly believed to be the burial place of the biblical figure Ezra.
Betanure is a village in Dohuk Governorate in Kurdistan Region, Iraq. It is located near the Iraq–Turkey border in the district of Amadiya and the historical region of Barwari.
The Tomb of Esther and Mordechai is located in Hamadan, Iran. Iranian Jews believe it houses the remains of the biblical Queen Esther and her cousin Mordechai, and is the most important pilgrimage site for Jews in Iran, and was declared a World Heritage Site by the Iranian government in 2008. There is no mention of it in either the Bavli or the Jerusalem Talmud and the Iranian Jewish tradition has not been supported by Jews beyond Iran.
Tadef is a town just southeast of Al-Bab, about 20 miles (32 km) east of Aleppo, Syria and less than 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) south of Al Bab. The town, which is the site of a shrine to the Hebrew prophet Ezra, was a popular summer resort for the Jews of Aleppo.
Mordechai Zaken also Moti Zaken is the 2019 laureate of "the Prime Minister Prize for the research of the Jews of the Orient." He is an expert on the Kurds and Middle Eastern minorities both as academic – he is historian of the Jews, the Kurds and the Assyrians in Kurdistan and as professional - serving as the advisor on Israeli Arabs and minorities to the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (1997–1999), and to the Ministry of Public Security from 2001.
An-Nukhailah Mosque is an historic Shi'ite Islam mosque in the town of Al Kifl, Iraq. The mosque is a complex which contains the Dhu'l Kifl Shrine, which is believed to be the tomb of the prophet Dhul-Kifl, who is considered to be Ezekiel.
