Sentence examples for of muharram from inspiring English sources

This year, the road has been completely blocked to traffic since the start of Muharram.

Many more come in at the beginning of Muharram, the Muslim month when Ashura occurs.

Ashura is the tenth day of Muharram, a month of public mourning for Shiites.

The only time business is slow is during the Shiite mourning month of Muharram, Allan said.

Iran's loyalist media were soon trying to fix people's attention upon ceremonies to mark the Shia mourning month of Muharram.

Shiites are observing the Mourning of Muharram, a 10-day period in which lengthy processions wind through major urban centers and that culminates on Sunday.

Among the Shīʿite Muslims, a passion play known as the taʿziyah ("consolation") is performed during the first 10 days of the month of Muharram.

The executions this year were carried out ahead of the mourning month of Muharram that began Thursday under the lunar calendar.

The Islamic month of Muharram, which began on Saturday, is a time of mourning for Hussein, the grandson of the prophet Muhammad revered by Shiites.

Ayatollah Shahroudi, whose name has been floated as a possible successor to supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei, holds a particularly grand ceremony in the holy city of Mashhad during Muharram featuring Haj Mahmoud Karimi, one of Iran's most famous orators.

The government usually tightens its controls in advance of Ramadan and Muharram, but the mood last month was especially stern.