Qom, a city for pursuits of the spirit From: The Boston Globe | Date: April 12, 1993| Author: Ethan Bronner, Globe Staff | Copyright 1993 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Ethan Bronner is the Globe's Middle East correspondent. QOM, Iran -- The spiritual wail of a perfect alto cuts through the thick, expectant air that fills the shrine to Masumeh, sister to Reza, eighth imam of Muslim Shiism. The piercing voice, wired through loudspeakers to the blue-tiled courtyards, seems impossibly like that of a woman. But such things are forbidden; the chanter is an exceptionally gifted boy.

Thousands come daily to this shrine to touch the tomb of Masumeh, to g...

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