Remembering through Re-enacting: Revisiting the Emergence of the Iranian Ta'zia Tradition

• Autores: Eleanor Lucy Deacon
• Localización: Medieval English theatre, ISSN 0143-3784, Nº. 41, 2020, págs. 58-83
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Taʿzia khani, also known as shabih khani, is a Shiʿite form of devotional theatre.¹ The performances, ongoing in the present day, are fundamentally rituals of lament, and centre around commemoration of the martyrdom of the Third Imam of Shiʿi Islam and grandson of the Prophet Mohammad, Hosayn ibn ʿAli ibn Abi Taleb, born c.AH 6 (AD 627).² The taʿzia repertoire includes a largely anonymous cycle of plays, the central corpus of which portray the siege and slaughter of Hosayn and seventy-two of his companions³ on the plain of Karbala in the Islamic month of Moharram in the year AH 61