Shi'ite clerics study at al-Gharawiya school run by al-Hawza al-Ilmiyya in Najaf, Iraq, August 13, 2017. REUTERS/Abdullah Dhiaa Al-deen
NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - For more than 1,000 years, the al-Hawza al-Ilmiyya south of Baghdad has been one of the hearts of Shi'ite Islamic scholarship, training the clerics who lead Shi'ite communities across the Muslim world.
Thousands of students, from teenage boys to university graduates, study Islam at its schools in the holy cities of Najaf and Kerbala.
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