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Mourning at New Year's Day (Nowruz)

Cultural Practice against Ideology

Reinhold L. Loeffler and Erika Friedl

solar calendar. The Twelver Shi'a commemorative rituals on Ashura in Muharram and Arba'yin , the 40th-day-mourning of the death of Imam Huseyn, fall on different dates during the four seasons, sometimes making it awkward for people to perform the

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Introduction

Religious Rituals’ Reflection of Current Social Conditions in the Middle East

Ingvild Flaskerud

Huseyn on the day of Arba'yin over the joyous celebration of the Persian New Year, Nowruz . Islamic and Persian calendars and rituals have traditionally operated side by side in Iran, forming integral parts of people's identity as Iranian Muslims. The

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The History in Procession

Shiʿite Identity Formation through Frames of Arbaʿyin Pilgrimage Narrative

Ahmad Shekarchi

Epic is the preferred form of the narration (see Chart 2 ). Chart 2. Narrative map of political Arba'yin. 2022. ©Ahmad Shekarchi. The Tribal Route: The Silent Plot Moving from Raʾs ol-Bīshih toward Karbalâ, the 590-kilometre tribal