Question

This city’s Bab al-Saghir cemetery is the commonly accepted burial place of Bilal and sixteen later martyrs’ heads. Because Ruqayya was forced to walk barefoot to this city where she died in the dark, modern worshippers leave shoes and candles at small replicas of her grave. This city was the final destination of a procession (-5[1])displaying the head of a man trampled by horses that first passed through (*) Kufa. Muslim (-5[1])ibn-Hajjaj related that a white minaret in this city marks the location of the descent of a man clad in saffron-colored (10[1])robes. In this city, (10[1])Zaynab warned Yazid that he would be humiliated for slaughtering Muhammad’s family. Husayn’s martyrdom is honored at this city’s Great Mosque, (-5[2])which may also house John the Baptist’s head. For 10 points, name this fourth-holiest city of Islam, (10[1])the capital of the Umayyad Empire. (10[1]) (10[3])■END■

ANSWER: Damascus [or ​Dimashq]
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Arya KarthikSandmännchen im HelikopterchamPAIN and cornHELL in Columbia54-5
Will Alston1.g4 Test MixtureLet's Fighting Love69-5
Robert WangNJ TRANSit (and bobby i guess)mnemonists9010
Amogh KulkarniThe Aum-Wein Drinchard by Amogh Tutuolaprotobowling for soup9410
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Raymond WangNaocissus and Geoldmond by Hermandrew HesseParden the Interruption13210
Alex SchmidtLet's Fighting Love1.g4 Test Mixture13810
Jacky XuchamPAIN and cornHELL in ColumbiaSandmännchen im Helikopter13910
Jordan BrownsteinJinAh and Jordan from Wikiquizboy's jitches (ft. DMA)13910
Tejas RajebruhJJaryland13910