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Muharram

Index: El acercamiento a Almotásim.

Fishburn and Hughes: "The first month of the Islamic calendar. The tenth of Muharram commemorates the Battle of Karbala fought in Persia in 680 between the Shi'ites and the Sunnites on the issue of legitimate leadership of the Islamic community. It ends the ten-day mourning period in memory of the martyrdom of the Holy Family of the Shi'ite leader Imam Hussein, grandson of the prophet Mohammed through his daughter Fatima, and is a day of holy celebration." (136)