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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV

Note 14 — TRAVELS OF KERIM KHAN.[3]

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Tazîya, literally grief, is an ornamental shrine erected in Moslem houses during the Mohurrum, and intended to represent the mausoleum of Hassan and Hussein, at Kerbelah in Persia. On the 10th and last day of the mourning, the tazîyas are carried in procession to the outside of the city, and finally deposited with funeral rites in the burying-grounds.—See Mrs Meer Hassan Ali's Observations on the Mussulmans of India. Letter I.

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