Hilla

Hilla, on the Euphrates in central Iraq, was founded around 1100 and became a leading centre of Twelver Shi'i scholarship in the 13th-14th centuries. The jurists al-Muhaqqiq al-Hilli (d. 1277) and his nephew al-Allama al-Hilli (d. 1325), major systematizers of Twelver law and theology, took their nisba from and worked in the city.