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In: Karbala in the Taʿziyeh Episode, Shiʿi Devotional Drama in Iran
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ʿAbbās b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭāleb
in devotional narratives 62, 93–94
in historiography 91–94, 151
paintings of 94
taʿziyeh martyrdom episode 8, 72–73, 82–83, 86, 89–123, 147, 159
other taʿziyeh treatment 33, 129n10, 146–147, 149, 177
Ê¿Abbasid period 93n14
ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥasan
in devotional narratives 151
in historiography 159–160
taʿziyeh treatment 129, 171, 172n55
Abū Lahab 103
Abū-Muslem-nāmeh 55
Abū Sufyān 103
Ādam 6, 111, 187
Ê¿Ain al-Salá¹­anah 48
ʿAjam order (Selseleh-ye ʿAjam) 57–60, 106–107, 185–186, 213, 231–233
Akbar, Mughal Emperor 70n15
Albert Hall 40
Alborz Province 44n65, 53, 158, 163, 164n22, 181
ʿAlī Akbar (b. Ḥusain)
in devotional narratives 87n65, 150–152
in historiography 151
paintings of 94
taʿziyeh martyrdom 83, 130–131, 141, 147–149, 152, 161–162, 198
other taʿziyeh treatment 52–53, 85–86, 98–99, 118–121, 128–150, 155, 176, 211, 234
ʿAlī Aṣghar (b. Ḥusain)
in historiography 159
paintings of 162
taʿziyeh martyrdom 161–163, 167–168, 211
other taʿziyeh treatment 76, 120, 168
ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭāleb
in devotional narratives 122, 183
in Shiʿi belief 3n, 5–6
taʿziyeh treatment of 72–74, 102–103, 121, 132, 183, 201, 214–216
amānāt 179, 187–188
“Amīr Kabīr” Mīrzā Taqī-Khān 226–227
angels 100, 167, 180–187, 189, 212, 237–238
Anīs al-Dawlah 45, 50n89
“Āqā Bābā” 51, 192
Āqāsī, Ḥājjī Mīrzā 148
Arak 152n80
Armenia 73, 79
ʿArūs-e Ḥażrat-e Fāṭemeh (Fāṭemeh’s Bride) 46
ʿArūsī raftan-e Ḥażrat-e Fāṭemeh (Fāṭemeh Goes to a Wedding) 46, 224, 237–238
ʿArūsī-ye Belqais u Sulaimān (The Wedding of Belqais and Soloman) 46
ʿĀshūrāʾ 5, 27, 33–35, 38, 73, 92, 186
Asrār al-shahādah (Burūjerdī, Sarbāz) 21
Aubin, Eugène 57
Azraq-e Shāmī 131–132, 150, 151n77
Baghdad 27–28
Baḥīrā 77
baḥr-e ṭavīl 108–111, 211–213
Bānū-Gushasp-nāmeh  55, 120–121, 178n74
Bāzār-e Shām (The Damascus Market) 5–6, 9, 72, 74–76, 190–229
al-Bedāyah wa’l-nehāyah (“Ebn Kathīr” Esmāʿīl b. ʿUmar b. Kathīr) 27–28
beloved (maʿshūq) 141–144, 155
Berezin, Il’ya Nikolaevitch 39, 48, 148–149, 183, 191, 201n36, 205, 208, 223
Bible 70–71
de Bruin, Cornelis 30
Bushehr 14–15, 91, 118n83, 126, 157, 192
Buyid Dynasty 27–28
Byzantine ambassador. see European Ambassador
camels 35, 197
Cerulli, Enrico 16, 43
collection of taʿziyeh scripts 7, 10–11, 43, 51–52
collection process 16–19, 43
discussion of individual scripts 32n24, 90–91, 105, 110, 114, 116–117, 121, 125–126, 142, 146–147, 157, 177, 188, 207, 219–220
chahār-pāreh (ṣad-pāreh) 216–219
Chardin, Jean 184
Chodzko, Aleksander Borejko 12, 39, 49, 51, 52n107
collection of taʿziyeh scripts 12–13, 51, 209
discussion of individual scripts 79n47, 90–91, 95n17, 96n21, 99n29, n31 & n34, 126, 130n12, 147–148, 152, 157, 166, 176–177, 180, 183
Christian characters 75–81, 171, 209–210, 226. European Ambassador; European Doctor
Christian Lady, the episode of (Majles-e zan-e naṣrānī) 75–76, 209
coffeehouses 3–4, 56, 59, 70, 233
compositional features 23–24, 57, 65–88, 214–216, 230–232
composition-scheme (Kompositionsschema) 83–87, 94–101, 127–133, 164–172
Constitutional Revolution 42, 222
conversion to Islam 16, 46, 73n30, 75–81, 169, 183, 202–204
Cossack Brigades 42
cursing (ritual). see tabarrāʾ
Damascus 5, 9, 27, 34, 75, 110, 172, 221. Bāzār-e Shām
Darbandsar
collection of taʿziyeh scripts 15, 19n, 22, 72n22
discussion of individual scripts 73n28, 90–91, 109–110, 112–113, 115–116, 126, 141, 156–157, 162n18, 170n48, 191–192, 201n40, 206n58, 216–217, 224
Day of Judgement 6, 156, 179, 216
Dervish of Kabul (Darvīsh-e Kābulī) 58–59, 75, 78, 168–169, 180–187, 233–234
Dīnavarī, Abū Ḥanīfah 20n50, 161
Durrat al-á¹¢adaf 13n26, 178
Dutch Empire 33
Ebn Saʿd, ʿUmar
in historiography 87n65, 119, 159–160
taʿziyeh treatment of 79–81, 85, 95–97, 100, 105–106, 128, 131–132, 161, 165, 167, 169–170, 178, 218
Ebn Ziyād, ʿUbaid-Allāh
in historiography 5, 193–195
in devotional narratives 193
taʿziyeh treatment of 79–80, 97, 209n70
Ebrāhīm (Abraham) 111, 114, 116–117, 187
epic literature 3, 7, 55–57
influence on the taʿziyeh 24–27, 85–86, 88, 93–94, 101–104, 109–110, 120–123, 178, 211n77
Eskandar-nāmeh 55, 57, 70
Euphrates 5, 8, 84, 89, 92–94, 100, 120
European Ambassador (Īlchī Farangī) 9, 34, 75–76, 78, 190–194, 198–199, 200–214, 219, 229, 235
European Doctor 9, 191–193, 196–196, 223–228
European Monk, the episode of (Majles-e dairānī-ye farangī) 75, 77n39, 209n70
“Fanāʾī”, Aḥmad Mullā Muḥammad ʿAlī Vāʿeẓ Khānsārī 51, 230–231
faqareh 67, 187–188, 200n33, 232
Farfahan 12, 157nb
Fāṭemeh-ye Ṣughrā (Fāṭemah bint Ḥusain)
in devotional narratives 87, 127, 150, 154–155
in historiography 199n31
taʿziyeh treatment 8, 33n27, 124, 128–131, 133–134, 138–140, 147–148, 168, 199, 201, 220
Fāṭemeh-ye Zahrā (Fāṭemah bint Muḥammad)
in Shiʿi belief 3n, 5–6, 179
taʿziyeh treatment of 46, 49–50, 72–73, 76, 121n93, 171, 173, 202, 214, 216
Fatḥ-ʿAlī Shāh Qājār 38–39, 41, 45–46, 49n85, 181, 208–209, 219, 233
Fayyāż, Hāshem 15, 51, 67
collection of taʿziyeh scripts 15, 51
discussion of individual scripts 15, 70n46, 126
Feżżeh 50, 157nh, 166, 177, 179n79, 187–188, 236
Francklin, William 38, 124–125, 148, 205, 231
Fuṭrus 183–184, 212
futuvvat 59–63, 93n14, 230, 233
Futuvvat-nāmeh-ye sulṭānī (Kāshefī, Ḥusain Vāʿeẓ) 59–63, 230
Garmaseh 1, 191, 204
Gawharī Khānum 47
gazelles 112, 212
Ghārat-e khaimeh-hā (The Plunder of the Camp) 29, 51, 73–75, 164, 179, 222n97, 230
Ghaṣb-e bāgh-e Fadak (The Usurpation of the Garden of Fadak) 216
Gheynar 51
Gobineau, Arthur de 14, 49, 52–53, 153, 209–210
translation of The Martyrdom of Qāsem 14, 126, 129n11, 130–131, 134, 141, 148
guilds 60–61
gurīz 7
gūsheh
definition 7, 66–67, 213
examples 118, 131–132, 181–183, 185–187, 198, 202, 223–228
Ḥabīb al-siyar (“Khāndamīr”, Ghiyās al-Dīn) 4n, 20, 92–93, 151, 161, 174n63, 193, 195, 225n108
Hābīl (Abel) 112–113
Haftād-u-du tan (The Seventy-Two People) 32–35, 63–64, 146–148, 230
Hamadan 47, 53
Ḥamzah-nāmeh 57, 70
Hānībāl, ʿAlī (Arkady) 16–18, 43–44
Ḥarmalah 161, 167
Hārūn al-Rashīd 79–80
Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭāleb
in devotional narratives 150
in Shiʿi belief 3n, 6, 172
taʿziyeh treatment 8, 82, 124, 128–129, 141, 143–144, 165, 173, 212
ḥejleh 130, 133
Hendeh 198, 220–221
Heraclius, Byzantine Emperor 77
Herat 20, 28, 60–63
Hezār afsān (A Thousand Stories) 67
Hezār-u-yek shab (One Thousand and One Nights) 66–67
Homer 68–71
horses 30, 33–35, 40, 45, 85, 92, 130–131, 167, 170, 174–177, 189, 207, 234
houris 46, 131
Ḥurr b. al-Yazīd al-Riyāhī 79–80, 82, 86n64, 118n83
Ḥusain b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭāleb
childhood (taʿziyeh treatment of) 183, 212
in devotional narratives 58, 77–78, 81, 112, 115–117, 150
in historiography 4–5, 74, 77n39, 93, 118, 127, 194–195, 225
paintings of 94
in Shiʿi belief 3n, 4–6
taʿziyeh martyrdom episode 8–9, 12–13, 26–27, 58, 72, 75–86, 156–189, 214, 219–220, 231, 235, 237
other taʿziyeh treatment 9, 33, 73–75, 79–80, 82, 85–86, 89, 95–101, 114–120, 122–123, 128–130, 132–133, 137–138, 140–141, 143–146, 149, 190, 194, 197, 200–202, 224
Ḥusain, ʿAlī Khān 12–13, 51
Ḥusain, Ḥājjī Mullā 53
Ḥusain-e Kurd 69–70
Hyderabad 154–155
Īlchī Farangī. see European Ambassador
improvisation 23, 54, 56–57, 68, 232
India 58, 70n15, 75n33, 154–155, 169–170, 182, 186
intercession 1, 6, 9, 86, 156, 166, 170–171, 179, 199, 216
ʿĪsā (Jesus) 79–80, 111–112
Isfahan 1, 29–31, 34, 36, 41, 48, 59n128, 91, 109n60, 126, 157, 184, 191, 204, 230
Islamic Republic 44
Jaʿfar Khān Zand 38
Jameh Shuran 47
javānmardī. see futuvvat
Jebra ʾīl (Gabriel) 170, 173, 177, 185
Jesus. see ʿĪsā
Jewish characters 75, 77–78
jinn 169, 181–183, 186, 189
Kara-Kirghiz 69
Karbala, Battle of
events surrounding 4–5
in Shiʿi belief 6
treatment in taʿziyeh 5–6. ʿAbbās, Qāsem, and Ḥusain martyrdom episodes
Kashan 15, 41, 43, 79n46, 91, 126, 192, 226–228
K etāb al-Ershād (“al-Shaikh al-Mūfīd”, Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-Nuʿmān) 4n, 19–20, 87n65, 92, 118–119, 127, 151, 161, 166n27, 174n63, 183, 193–194, 200n32
Khāksār dervish order 57–59, 63n146, 185–187, 233. ʿAjam order
Khānum ʿEzzat Nesā 47
Kharg 32–35
khaṭṭ (nowkhaṭṭ) 141–144, 155
Khawlī b. Yazīd al-Aṣbaḥī 161
Khur 72n26
Khurasan 28, 61
Khusrow u Shīrīn 120
Kufa 4–5, 95n18, 159, 161, 193, 209n70
Kuls̱ūm bint ʿAlī 96, 99, 149, 166, 174–177, 199
lion 58, 102–104, 106, 113n69, 169, 179
lithographs of rawżeh-khānī/maqtal genre 20–21, 23, 58, 81, 114–118, 184, 223–224, 234
Litten, Willhelm 13
collection of taʿziyeh scripts 13–14
discussion of individual scripts 91, 105–106, 108n57, 157, 173, 175n68, 180, 183, 220
London 40
Luhūf (Ebn Ṭāwūs) 182–183
Madraseh-ye Sulṭānī 31–32
Manṭeq al-ṭayr (Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār) 173
maqtal genre 19–20, 182–183
Maqtal al-Ḥusain (Abū Mekhnaf) 19, 74, 82, 126, 159n3
Maqtal al-Ḥusain (“al-Khwārezmī”, Abū Muʾīd) 20n50, 161
Markazi Province 12, 51, 53, 152n80, 157
marsiyeh 154
Mātamkadeh (“Bīdel” Qurbān b. Ramażān al-Qazvīnī al-Rūdbārī) 21
Mecca 4, 110
Medina 27, 35, 99–100, 129n11, 146–147, 159, 165, 168, 180, 198, 201, 203, 212, 229
MÄ«r-e Anjem 51
Mīr-e ʿAzā, Sayyed Muṣṭafā Kāshānī 15, 51–52, 126, 128n9, 129n10, 131n16, 133n25, 142n51, 143–144, 167n32, 192, 227–228, 236
MÄ«r-e Gham 51
Mīr-e Mātam 15, 126, 128n9, 129n10, 131n16, 133n25, 142n51, 143–144
Mīrzā Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Shīrāzī 39
Mīrzā Muḥammad Taqī 51, 53
de Montheron, M. 34–36, 48, 230
Muʿezz al-Dawlah Ebn Būyah 27
Muḥammad (Prophet of Islam)
in devotional narratives 74, 203
in historiography 74, 77
in Shiʿi belief 3n, 4–6
signet ring of 132, 216
taʿziyeh treatment of 72, 73n28, 103, 111, 121n93, 171, 173, 187, 201, 212, 213n83, 216, 237
Muḥammad Reẓā Shāh Pahlavī 43
Muḥammad Shāh Qājār 15, 39, 219, 223
Muḥarram
cycle of plays 1–2, 5–6, 7–9, 23, 65–87, 117–118, 129n11, 137, 147, 153, 156, 167, 175, 219, 230, 234
mourning rituals 3, 18, 26–37, 42–43, 47–50, 54, 63n146, 149
Muʿīn al-Bukāʾ 45, 51, 236–237
Mūnes al-Dawlah 45–46, 49n85, 237
Munīr al-Salṭanah 46
Mūsā (Moses) 111, 113–114
Mūsā va Darvīsh-e Biyābānī (Moses and the Desert-Dwelling Dervish) 164n23, 185, 187, 231
Mūsā b. Jaʿfar (Mūsā al-Kāẓem)
taʿziyeh martyrdom episode 79–80, 88
music 45, 52, 128n9, 130–131, 148, 197, 208
Muslem b.ʿAqīl
in historiography 5
taʿziyeh treatment of 5, 72–73
Mustawfī, ʿAbdullāh 48, 53
Nāder Shāh Afshār 28–30, 37, 64, 231
Najaf 98, 121, 168, 170
nāmūs (honour) 219–222, 229
naqqālī (traditional storytelling) 3, 24–25, 36, 42n58, 54–59, 61n140, 64, 66–67, 70, 88, 94, 122, 210–214, 230–232
Nāṣer al-Dīn Shāh Qājār 39–42, 45–46, 49n85, 51–53, 182, 207n61, 219, 223, 225–227, 233–234
taʿziyeh martyrdom episode 42, 82–83
“Nāṭeq”, Sayyed Mīr-Zain al-ʿĀbedīn 51, 60, 79, 81, 182, 213, 232
Nāẓem al-Bukāʾ 51
Negus, Emperor of Ethiopia 77
Neẓāmī Ganjavī 120n91 
Niebuhr, Carsten 32–35, 38n42, 148, 203–205, 230
nuskheh. see taʿziyeh scripts
Ottoman Empire 37
Ouseley, William 148, 208
Oxus river 25, 110
Pahlavi Dynasty, reign of 18, 23, 36n37, 42–44, 64, 222
pardeh-dārī (pardeh-khānī; shamāyel-gardānī storytelling with a painted canvas) 3–4, 54–59, 64, 88, 94, 122, 162, 184–186, 231–233
Pelly, Sir Lewis 14
collection of taʿziyeh scripts 14–15
discussion of individual scripts 76, 91, 99n30, 114–118, 126, 143, 157, 168n39, 170n43, 174n65, 192, 200n35, 202n44, 213–214, 223
prohibition (and restriction)
of foreigners’ attendance at taʿziyeh 208–209
of taʿziyeh performances 18, 33, 42–44
of traditional storytelling 55n111
“Qāʾānī” Mīrzā Ḥabīb-Allāh Shīrāzī 218–219
Qābīl (Cain) 112–113
Qajar Dynasty, reign of 2–4, 23, 38–42, 44–54, 57, 64, 70, 181, 185–186, 189, 191, 203–204, 208, 219, 225, 233–238
Qais, Sultan of India 58, 73, 75n33, 169–170, 182–184, 186, 234–235
Qalat 47
Qamar al-Salṭanah 45–46
Qāsem b. Ḥasan
in devotional narratives 127, 150–152, 154, 235
in historiography 126–127
paintings of 125
taʿziyeh martyrdom episode 8, 14–15, 38, 83, 86–87, 124–155, 219–220, 234
other taʿziyeh treatment 33, 53, 96, 98–99, 119, 173, 175n68, 211
Qāsem’s mother 50, 129–131, 133–137, 139–140, 143–144, 147–150, 152–155, 234
Qazvin 17, 43, 53
Qom 32n24, 192
Qur’an 111–113, 196, 200
rajaz-khānī  102
Ramażān 59
rawżeh-khānī  3–4, 20, 28, 30–32, 34, 45, 47–49, 54, 60, 66, 151, 154, 184, 231, 233, 236
Rawżat al-ṣafā (“Mīrkhānd”, Muḥammad b. Khāvandshāh b. Maḥmūd) 4n, 20, 81, 87n65, 92–93, 119, 151, 161, 193–195, 225n108
Rawżat al-shuhadāʾ (Kāshefī, Ḥusain Vāʿeẓ) 3, 4n, 20, 60, 74n31, 77–78, 81, 87–88, 93–94, 127, 132, 141n48, 150–152, 154–155, 161, 162n19, 167, 169n41, 173, 182–184, 193–194, 203–205, 213, 233, 235
Ray 97, 174
Reẓā Shāh Pahlavī 42, 55n111
Rustam 56, 103, 104n45, 110, 120–121, 132
á¹¢afar 41, 44, 47n75, 59
Safavid Dynasty, reign of 26, 28–32, 34–37, 48, 51, 54–55, 59, 63–64, 66, 127, 161–162, 184, 195–196, 204, 230–232
sakū 40–41, 48, 50, 154, 234, 236
Sakīneh (Sakīnah bint Ḥusain)
taʿziyeh treatment 33n27, 84, 95–96, 99–101, 128, 166, 176–177, 194, 198–201, 211n75
Salmons, Thomas 29–30, 37, 184
saqqāyān. see water-carriers
satire 9, 46, 223–228
Saveh 53
self-mortification 29–31, 35
Selseleh-ye Ê¿Ajam. see Ê¿Ajam order
Senān b. Anas 79–82, 160–161, 164, 171
Serena, Carla 40, 41n53, 50n89, 53n102, 205, 223
Shāh ʿAbbās I, Safavid 71n15
Shāh-nāmeh (Ferdowsī, Abu’l-Qāsem) 25, 55, 85–86, 102–103, 104n45, 110
Shāh-Parvar Khānum 47
Shāhbānū Faraḥ Pahlavī 43–44
Shāh-cherāgh 43n60, 73n28
Shahrbānū 120, 166–167, 174, 177, 186, 188
Shahrud 32n24
Shariyʿatī Ẕawq ʿAlī-Shāh, Ḥusain 16, 18, 43
Sheil, Mary Woulfe 49, 50n89, 153–154, 205, 208, 223
Shemr (Shamer b. ẕī al-Jawshan)
in devotional narratives 141n48, 161, 194
in historiography 91–92, 160–161, 195
paintings of 162
taʿziyeh treatment of 1, 9, 33, 49, 52–53, 74, 82, 85, 94–101, 103–121, 128, 131, 133, 161–162, 164–165, 171–172, 178–179, 191, 194, 197, 199n31, 200–202, 214–219
Shiraz 15, 32n24, 38, 41, 53n106, 91, 118n82, 124–126, 148, 157, 192, 205, 231
Arts Festival 22–23, 43–44
Siffin, Battle of 97, 171n51
sīneh-zanī 49
al-Sīra al-nabawiyyah (Ebn Esḥāq; Ebn Heshām, ʿAbd al-Malek) 77, 80
Siyāvash 25–27
stock epithets 65–66
storytelling. see naqqālī and pardeh-dārī
Stuart, Charles 205
sub-episode. see gūsheh
Sufism 59. ʿAjam, and Khāksār dervish orders
sukhanvarī 59–60, 106–107, 109, 213, 232
Sulṭan Ḥusain, Shāh 31
tabarrāʾ 31, 195–196
tableaux vivant 3, 28, 30
Tabriz 13, 53
Taleqan 53
Taqī Nūrī, Muḥammad 51
Tārīkh al-rusul wa’l-mulūk (al-Ṭabarī, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad b. Jarīr) 4n, 19–20, 27n5, 74, 81, 87n65, 91–92, 98, 101n38, 118–119, 126–127, 151, 159–161, 167, 193–195, 199n31
Tārīkh-nāmeh-ye Ṭabarī (Balʿamī, Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad) 4n, 19, 92, 95n17, 127, 132n21, 151, 160n9, 161, 193–195, 202–203
Tārīkh-e Sīstān 77n39
Ṭarīq al-bukāʾ (“Geryān” Ardestānī Esfahānī) 81n55
Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste 59n128
taʿziyeh-khānī (shabīh-khānī)
audience 1–3, 6, 40–41, 64–67, 71, 74, 78, 86, 88, 147–148, 177, 188–189, 210, 214, 230, 233–236. women as taʿziyeh audience members
composers and directors 13, 15, 45, 50–52, 58, 60, 66, 71, 106–107, 182, 209, 230–232
emergence 28–37, 61–64, 117–118, 230–232
performers 39, 41, 47, 49, 50–54, 59–64, 71, 153, 207n61, 214, 226, 230–232, 234, 236. women as taʿziyeh performers
repertoire 1–2, 7, 41–43, 46, 50, 53–54, 56–58, 88, 115, 146–147, 164, 209, 232, 235, 238
scripts 9–19
venues. see tekiyeh
taʿziyeh-ye kāravānī (taʿziyeh-ye sayyār; taʿziyeh-ye dowreh) 30
taʿziyeh-ye maidānī 35
taʿziyeh-ye zanāneh. see women as taʿziyeh performers
Tehran 12–13, 15–16, 23, 39–42, 48–49, 52–53, 79n46, 91, 126, 148, 153–154, 157, 183, 209
tekiyeh (ḥusainiyah) 26, 39–42, 44, 48–49, 64, 109n60, 148, 154–155, 163, 164n22, 230, 233–234, 236
Tekiyeh-ye Dawlat 39–42, 51, 223, 226
tile paintings 94, 125, 215
Tīmur (Tamerlane), taʿziyeh play treating 13, 221
Timurid period 20, 28, 60–63, 108, 221
Transoxiana 25, 110
Ṭūfān al-bukāʾ (“Jawharī”, Mīrzā Ebrāhīm b. Muḥammad-Bāqer) 20–21, 81, 115–118, 151–152, 184
ṭūmār 57, 66
type-scene 66–82, 87–88, 121–122, 169, 170–171, 199, 201, 204, 214- 216, 231–232, 236
ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb 195–196
Umayyad period 4–5, 27
Umm al-Banīn 89, 99, 104, 121, 123
Umm Lailā 130, 133–143, 146–152, 155, 166, 198
Vāliyah Ḥusn Jahān Khānum 47
van Goch, Matthias 29–30, 37, 184
vaqf 31–32, 47
Vasīlat al-najāt (Muḥammad Ḥusain b. Muḥammad Reżā) 21
Vatican Library 10, 16
verbal duel 91, 97, 102, 106–111, 122
wagons 3, 28, 35
water-carriers (saqqāyān) 61–62, 63n146
Wilbraham, Richard 205
women
as composers or copyists of taʿziyeh scripts 46–47, 58
as taʿziyeh audience members 2, 47–50, 64, 153–155, 188–189, 198, 205, 236
as taʿziyeh patrons 45–47
as taʿziyeh performers 35, 45–46, 236–238
taʿziyeh treatment of 8–9, 44, 50, 84, 87–88, 133–140, 152–155, 175–180, 187–189, 193, 198–201, 219–222, 235–236
Yaḥyā (John the Baptist) 111, 187
Yazīd b. Muʿāwiyyah
in devotional narratives 162n20, 193, 196
in historiography 4–5, 193–195
paintings of 215
taʿziyeh treatment of 1, 9, 33–34, 73n29, 190, 193, 195–228
Yūsuf (Joseph) 111–114
Yūsuf u Zulaikhā 46
Zaʿfar (king of the jinn) 169, 181–183, 186, 189
Zainab bint ʿAlī
in devotional narratives 27, 193
in historiography 27, 160, 193
leadership role (taʿziyeh portrayal of) 86, 158, 172, 175–179, 189, 200–201, 221–222
salvific importance (taʿziyeh portrayal of) 179–180, 187–188
taʿziyeh treatment of 9, 22, 29, 50, 82–83, 86, 95–96, 98–99, 119–120, 128–129, 131, 137–140, 143, 146–149, 157–158, 164–166, 171–172, 174–179, 190–191, 198–202, 219–220
Zain al-ʿĀbedīn b. Ḥusain (Imam Sajjād;ʿAlī b. Ḥusain)
in devotional narratives
in historiography 5, 160, 193
in Shiʿi belief 3n, 157, 172
taʿziyeh treatment of 8–9, 34, 72, 74, 99, 128, 172–177, 188–189, 191, 193–194, 196, 200–202, 214–216, 221n93
Zand Dynasty, reign of 28–29, 37–38, 58, 231
Zand period taʿziyeh script collection 12, 21, 51, 60, 106, 231
discussion of individual scripts 58, 106–108, 111, 114, 118n83, 121n93, 122, 157, 169n41, 176, 185, 192, 199n31, 201n40, 203, 206–208, 212–213, 217, 223
Zan-e Zuhrī 46–47, 58
Zarēr, Memorial of 26–27
zoomorphism 101–108, 122
Zoroastrianism 25–27, 114
Ẕū-l-feqār 97, 170, 199, 201
Ẕuljanaḥ 167, 174, 175–179
Zuvvār-e Turkmān 52

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Karbala in the Taʿziyeh Episode, Shiʿi Devotional Drama in Iran

Series:  Studies on Performing Arts & Literature of the Islamicate World, Volume: 15
Cover Karbala in the Taʿziyeh Episode, Shiʿi Devotional Drama in Iran
E-Book ISBN:
9789004716148
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Brill
Print Publication Date:
26 Nov 2024
  • Subjects
    • Art History
      • Drama & Theatre Studies
    • Asian Studies
      • Central Asia
    • History
      • Early Modern History
    • Middle East and Islamic Studies
      • Iran & Persian Studies
Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Figures and Tables
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
Chapter 1 The History of Taʿziyeh-khānī
Chapter 2 Conventions and Compositional Features of the Muḥarram Cycle
Chapter 3 The Martyrdom of Abū’l-Fażl al-ʿAbbās
Chapter 4 The Martyrdom of Qāsem
Chapter 5 The Martyrdom of Imam Ḥusain
Chapter 6 Bāzār-e Shām (The Damascus Market)
Conclusion
Back Matter
Glossary of Persian and Arabic Terms
Bibliography
Index

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