Reliving Karbala: Martyrdom in South Asian Memory by Syed Akbar Hyder

Reliving Karbala: Martyrdom in South Asian Memory

Syed Akbar Hyder

272 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

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In 680 C.E., a small band of the Prophet Muhammads family and their followers, led by his grandson, Husain, rose up in a rebellion against the ruling caliph, Yazid. The family and its supporters, hopelessly outnumbered, were massacred at Karbala, ...

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