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Ritual , Ritual
Citations in the Oxford English Dictionary from the fourteenth century on reveal two distinct trends of common usage for the words rite (ritua… Public Ritual , The study of ritual performed in communal life encompasses the wealth of world history and cosmology. Yet, few linguistic or conceptual categories of… Muharram , first month of the islamic lunar calendar, containing thirty days.
The events that took place on the tenth of Muharram in the year 680 changed foreve… Ritualization , ritualization An evolutionary process in which the form or context of an action is altered because it comes to play a role in social communication. F… Tears , Tears
TEARS have always played important roles as symbols and signs in religious life around the world, yet they have only recently begun to attract… Genealogy , Genealogy plays an important role in Islamic civilizations, often drawing on local pre-Islamic traditions, common to most oral cultures, of preservin…
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