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The journal Asian Ethnography published a review by Karen G. Ruffle which laments the lack of a concluding essay, but praises the book for providing "compelling material, ritual, and documentary evidence of how the Muharram ritual complex has taken “on new shapes and guises” outside of South Asia and has become an integral part of non-Shi ...
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Mourning for Karbala began with its female survivors, particularly Husayn's sister Zaynab, and evolved over time into distinct rituals that help define the Shia identity. Nowadays, most mourning rituals take place during the first ten days of Muharram, culminating with processions in major Shia cities on the tenth day, known as Ashura. Often ...
Bibi-Ka-Alam or Bibi-Ka-Alawa is an annual procession during Muharram.Bibi-ka-Alam, installed in the name of Imam Hussain, grandson of Muhammad and son of Ali ibn Abi Talib and Muhammad's daughter Fatimah, at the Bibi ka Alawa at Dabirpura, [1] Old City (Hyderabad, India) on the 10th day following Moharram. [2]
Sham-e-Ghariban (شام غریباں ) is a mourning night of Shi'Ites which is observed between 10th Muharram and 11th Muharram. The word Sham means night and Ghariban means poor or oppressed, thus this night remarks sacrifice and tolerance of the oppressed people of Ahlebait in Karbala. So, it is called Sham-e-Ghariban. [1]
A latmiyat ( لطميات . ) is a Muharram ritual expressing grief through poetry with thumping of the chest, usually done by Shia muslims.While it is known as latmiya, latmaya, or latmia in Arabia-Persian countries, it is known in India and Pakistan as matam or matam-dari/sina zani (chest beating).
By contrast, Ashura is a day of mourning for Shia Muslims, who annually commemorate the death of Husayn ibn Ali, grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the third Shia imam. Husayn was killed, alongside most of his relatives and his small retinue, in the Battle of Karbala in 680 CE against the army of the Umayyad caliph Yazid ibn Mu'awiya ( r.
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