Dar-ul-Shifa
Dar-ul-Shifa is a neighbourhood in the Old City of Hyderabad, India, named after the 16th-century hospital it once housed. The location was founded in AD 1591, more than 400 years ago, by Mohammed Quli Qutub Shah, the founder of Hyderabad city. Today it houses a large population of Shia Muslims and comes alive on the days of Muharram and Shia festivals. Most of the households have family members settled abroad, whose remittances increase the quality of life. In Arabic, and derived from it in Urdu, Turkish and Persian, dar al-shifa means "house of health", i.e.