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Nahid Assemi: Staging Piety – The tilework of the Takkiyya Mu’avin al-Mulk in Kermanshah
Nahid Assemi: Staging Piety – The tilework of the Takkiyya Mu’avin al-Mulk in Kermanshah
The Takkiyya Mu’avin al-Mulk is a building complex in the city of Kermanshah in western Iran, dedicated to the annual commemoration of the martyrdom of Husayn ibn ʿAli at the Battle of Karbala in 680, an event of seminal significance to Shiʿi Islam. Private takkiyyas built by social elites were a phenomenon of the Qajar period, […]