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Ashura (Arabic: عَاشُورَاء, ʿĀshūrāʾ, [ʕaːʃuːˈraːʔ]) is a day of commemoration in Islam. It occurs annually on the tenth of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar. For Sunni Muslims, Ashura marks the parting of the Red Sea by Moses and the salvation of the Israelites.
Shiite Muslims across the globe on Tuesday observed Ashura, an annual commemoration mourning the seventh-century martyrdom of a grandson of the Prophet Mohammed.
Ashura is celebrated in Sunni Islam through supererogatory fasting, and also other pious acts and acceptable expressions of joy. [4] [4] In some Sunni communities, the annual Ashura festivities include carnivals, bonfires, and special dishes, [5] [6] even though some Sunni scholars have criticized such practices. [4] [7] By contrast, for Shia ...
As with Ashura, [52] Arba'in can be an occasion for Sunni violence against Shia Muslims. [53] [54] [55] For instance, a suicide bomber killed at least forty-four Arba'in pilgrims and wounded some seventy others in 2012 near Nasiriya, Iraq. [56] In another attack in 2013, at least twenty pilgrims were killed and another fifty were wounded by a ...
Shiite Muslims Wednesday in Lebanon and Iraq commemorated Ashoura, marking the 7th-century death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein, that gave birth to their faith, while paying tribute to ...
The Sunni remembrance of Karbala, however, has declined in recent times. [40] Indeed, for many other Sunnis, Ashura is instead an important festival in commemoration of the parting of the Red Sea by Moses. [39] It is viewed as a day of thanksgiving (shukr), a joyous occasion, celebrated through pious acts and acceptable expressions of delight. [41]
Performance of Tatbir in Iran.An image from Brooklyn Museum.The image is taken between 1876 and 1933. Tatbir, also called Zanjeer Zani or Qama Zani, [1] is practiced by some Shia Muslims on the day of Ashura on the 10 Muharram of the Islamic calendar and on the 40th day after Ashura, known as Arba'een (or Chehelom in Persian) by Twelver Shias around the world.
In turn, Ashura is the death anniversary of Husayn ibn Ali, grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the third Shia imam. [4] Husayn, alongside most of his male relatives and his small retinue, were killed on 10 Muharram 61 AH (10 October 680 CE ) in the Battle of Karbala against the army of the Umayyad caliph Yazid ibn Mu'awiya ( r.