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The Muharram Festival, Persia. The Mourning of Muharram is practised by Shia Muslims in the first month of their year. It commemorates the death of Imam Husayn ibn Ali and his followers at the Battle of Karbala in 680 (year 61 of the Islamic calendar). A print from Customs of the World, Volume II Hutchinson and Co, Paternoster Row, London.