Eternal performance : Taʻziyah and other Shiite rituals /

Over the centuries, observances of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, have traveled far from their origins at Karbala--a windswept desert plain that is now a town in present-day Iraq--where, according to tradition, Hussein, the beloved grandson of Prophet Muhammad, was brutally put t...

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Other Authors:	Chelkowski, Peter J.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Seagull, 2010.
Series:	Enactments.
Subjects:	Taʻziyah. Mourning customs. Islamic mourning customs. Islam and the performing arts. Fasts and feasts > Shīʻah.