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Chapter 8 — Kerbela and Najaf: Surveying the Shiite World I received a message from London ordering me to leave for the cities of Kerbela and Najaf, the two most popular Shiite centres of knowledge and spirituality. So I had to put an end to my company with Muhammad of Najd and leave Basra. But I was happy — because I was sure that this ignorant and morally depraved man was going to establish a new sect which would demolish Islam from within, and that I was the composer of its heretical tenets