Chup Tazia

Chup Tazia (Bengali: চুপ তাজিয়া; Urdu: چُپ تَعِزْیَہ) or silent tazia is the name given to religious processions held mostly on 8th of Rabi' al-awwal by Twelver Shia Muslims in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan to commemorate the death of Imam Hasan al-Askari, the eleventh of the Twelver Shi'a Imams.[1] The procession is usually regarded as the last procession of the mourning period that begins in the Islamic month of Muharram.[2]

Mourning of Muharram in Dhaka
  1. ^ Census of India, 1961, Volume 1, Issue 3, Manager of Publications, Office of the Registrar General of India
  2. ^ Palace culture of Lucknow, Amir Hasan, B.R. Pub. Corp., 1983

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