The history of Ta'zieh, a kind of passion play, and its evolutionary trend in the Iranian context are probed into focusing on its constituent components: writing style, directorship, set and costume design, music, and acting style.

In the first feature, we will join Golnaar Farnudi to visit art galleries about Muharram. In the second feature, Golnaar Farnudi introduces Baysonqor Quran.

Martyrdom and the propagation of the divine message of Islam are fundamental elements of the battle of Karbala without which divine victory for the righteous men and women would not have been possible.

Thousands of Shia mourners gathered in the city of Milan in northern Italy on Sunday to commemorate Ashura, the tenth of Muharram.

Ashura was the fountainhead of Imam Khomeini’s revolutionary ideology and his popular call for fighting Taghut, a Quranic term denoting tyrannical powers on earth.

Over the past decade, Bahraini Shias have faced systematic persecution from the ruling establishment but that hasn’t deterred them from commemorating Muharram with revolutionary zeal and fervor

Millions of pilgrims from across the world descend on Iraq’s holy city of Karbala to mourn the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hossein.