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The largest contemporary Muslim pilgrimage isn't the hajj to Mecca, it's the Shiite pilgrimage to Karbala in Iraq

  • Written by Edith Szanto, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Alabama
imageShiite Muslims attend a mourning ritual during the Islamic month of Muharram, in the central shrine city of Karbala.Photo by Mohammed SAWAF / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMMED SAWAF/AFP via Getty Images

Every year, Shiite Muslims mark the death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Hussain with a mourning period that lasts a total of 50 days.

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