Eternal Performance: Taziyeh and Other Shiite Rituals by Peter J. Chelkowski

Eternal Performance: Taziyeh and Other Shiite Rituals

Peter J. Chelkowski

425 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction informative reflective slow-paced
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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 belov...

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