Promenade 08 - Blessings in Karbala

Fritz Klein - Campaign Memories

Since it was in great political interest to carry the holy war into Persia, it was necessary first to win over the Persian clergy in Karbala to my mission and to obtain the fatwa for jihad in Persia.

Fritz Klein - War Diary of the Karun expedition Karbala, Jan. 25, 1915 In the evening Dr. Preußer, Dr. Bachmann, Hoffmann, Back, Schadow, Müller, Blumenau, Reul, Thieme etc. arrive on horseback from Babylon and are likewise hospitably received. Dr. Uth and Dr. Preußer are appointed to travel to Nedjef together with Achmed Khan, where important religious dignitaries must also be won over for our plans. In the afternoon we take part in a specially arranged, very handsome military celebration in the apparently well-organized Persian school at Karbala, where a spirited address delivered by a student was presented to us as an address to His Majesty, the "Savior of Islam."

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