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SUMMARY:Memories of Ashura: A photographic essay from Zanzibar before and 
 after the Revolution  - Dr Sloan Mahone\, University of Oxford 
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CONTACT:Victoria Jones
DESCRIPTION:Each year on Ashura (the 10th day of the month of Moharrum in 
 the Islamic calendar)\, Muslims commemorate the death of the Prophet’s g
 randson\, Husain\, at the Battle of Karbala in 680 AD. For Shia Muslims\, 
 this commemoration takes the form of intense mourning for martyrs. For cer
 tain sects\, like the Ithna-asheri\, feeling the pain of the martyrs invol
 ves feeling pain themselves. Most dramatically such pain is often induced 
 by self-flagellation with chain-whips during a religious procession.  This
  paper focuses on the commemoration of Ashura by the Ithna-asheri of Zanzi
 bar\, and is based around a sequence of photographs of an Ashura processio
 n taken there in 1957 by Dr Edward Margetts\, a Canadian psychiatrist and 
 photographer who was based in Kenya in the late 1950s. Since the revolutio
 n of 1964 many of Zanzibar’s Ithna-asheri fled the island\, but these or
 iginal photographs\, matched with more recent images from the same process
 ional route\, offer a vivid portrait of an Ashura procession and document 
 a time and a place in the history of this community now looked back on wit
 h much nostalgia.
LOCATION:Seminar Room S1 Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge
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