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tazia - What does it mean?

Definition of 'tazia'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A representation of the tombs of (the grandsons of Muhammad), carried in processions for various Islamic festivities.
  • * 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘On the City Wall’, In Black and White , Folio Society 2005, page 437:
  • Gilt and paper presentations of their tombs are borne with shouting and wailing, music, torches, and yells, through the principal thoroughfares of the City; which fakements are called tazias .
  • A type of play commemorating the martyrdom of Hasan and Hussain.