{"product_id":"the-tragedy-of-karbala-and-kalyan-ali-balaven-9798842741472","title":"The Tragedy of Karbala and Other Poems","description":"In the year 680 CE, 61 years after the Great Migration, Imam Husayn, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, and his family were making a migration of their own to Kufa. An ambush had been carefully set in motion by the very \u003ci\u003ecaliph\u003c\/i\u003e whose despotic regime they were fleeing from. The family was ensnared on their way to Kufa and taken to a place known as Karbala. There the family was denied provision and water from the nearby Euphrates, tortured in the heat as armies of the \u003ci\u003ecaliph\u003c\/i\u003e amassed, then viciously slaughtered on the 10th day of Muharram, known as Ashura. Children and infants were not spared the brutality. The heads of those slain were decapitated and placed on spears. The survivors were stripped of their possessions, chained, and marched to Kufa, then from Kufa to the \u003ci\u003ecaliph\u003c\/i\u003e's court in Damascus. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Muslim followers of these traditions are committed to never forgetting the tragic events at Karbala. Therefore, a culture of commemoration, lamentation, and elegy has been locally adopted by adherents in numerous languages and dialects throughout the world. However, for English, the culture is only now developing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor the past 25 years, Kalyan Ali Balaven has traveled the world as a rare and popular English elegist for the tragic events of Karbala. As a historian, educator, and poet, his original pieces draw from the collective history of Karbala and help retell the tragic story in skillful poetic succession as they would be traditionally recited over the first 10 nights of Muharram.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kalyan Ali Balaven\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8842741477\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798842741472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/27\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d","brand":"Kalyan Ali Balaven","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46024846606591,"sku":"9798842741472","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3d92c92a-72c8-4cef-a069-0dc05c201f29.jpg?v=1723129359","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-tragedy-of-karbala-and-kalyan-ali-balaven-9798842741472","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}