Mourning of Muharram
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Mourning of Muharram is a set of religious rituals observed by Shia Muslims during the month of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar. These annual rituals commemorate the death of Husayn
Muharram mourning gathering on the night of Ashura in Tehran, Iran
Shia passion play (ta'ziya) in Iran
Procession of mourners in Iran
Ashura demonstrations against the Pahlavids in Iran, 1978
Battle of Karbala
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The Battle of Karbala was fought on 10 October 680 between the army of the second Umayyad caliph Yazid I and a small army led by Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, at Karbal
Abbas Al-Musavi's Battle of Karbala, Brooklyn Museum
Coin issued by Yazid I following Sasanian motifs, struck at the Basra mint, dated AH 61 (AD 680/1), the year in which the Battle of Karbala occurred
The al-Abbas Mosque in Karbala
Shrine to those killed at the battle