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They hold an annual ceremony of public weeping and wailing to commemorate the martyrdom in 680AD of Imam Husayn, grandson of Muhammad.Pragmatism informs many funerary practices.

In 1562 he moved to Badaun (hence his name) and then to Patiāla, where he entered the service of a local prince, Husayn Khān, with whom he remained for nine years.

A symbiosis of the arts also marks the work of Ghulam Husayn Saʿidi (Gholam-Hossein Saʿedi), who wrote short stories as well as plays for the theatre and scripts for successful Iranian films.

The Academy of the Arabic Language (1932), which was presided over by the veteran educator Taha Husayn, became, in terms of prestige and influence, one of the most important cultural institutions in Egypt.

March 2 Explosions in the Iraqi cities of Baghdad and Karbala kill some 170 Shiʿite Iraqis celebrating the last day of Ashura, on which Shi'ites commemorate the martyrdom of Husayn, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, in Karbala.

About 1370 Timur turned against Husayn, besieged him in Balkh, and, after Husayn's assassination, proclaimed himself at Samarkand sovereign of the Chagatai line of khans and restorer of the Mongol empire.

Typical of the legendary tradition of the Shīʿites are the taʿziyas (passion plays) in Iran, commemorating the death of al-Husayn ibn ʿAlī in the Battle of Karbalāʾ (680), and the mars̄īyehs (threnodies or elegies for the dead), which form an important branch of the Urdu poetry of India and Pakistan.

Clashes took place at Cairo's al-Husayn and al-Sayyida Zeinab mosques between members of Sufi orders and security forces who forced them to evacuate the two shrines.

Avicenna (Abû 'Alî al-Husayn b.'Abd Allah Ibn Sînâ, d. 1037), the multi-talented and prodigiously productive faylasûf whose work had the greatest impact among later Muslim thinkers, unequivocally posited an independent, self-conscious, substantial and immortal soul, and with it asserted its immortality.

The editor of the text in the Leiden MS was Abu l-Husayn al-Basri (d. 1044), a pupil of Ibn as-Samh".

Juxtaposed to him is ahl bayt al-nubuwwa (the immediate family of the Prophet: Muhammad, his daughter Fâtima, his cousin and son-in-law 'Alî and their sons, al-Hasan and al-Husayn) as the guarantors of the true tradition concerning prophetic succession.