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‘...Drama has had some ties with religion, as in Iran and other areas where the Shiite branch of Islam is concentrated. Here a passion play developed, rooted in traumatic memories of Islam’s earlier years. This was a local phenomenon, uninfluenced by Christian Europe, and, though stereotyped, it movingly re[-]enacted Shiite martyrdom.’*

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*{cf [[Redbook9:123][19910415:0840x]{[Islamic Art –] Dance and Theatre [continued (5)]}[15th April 1991],] 123}

** – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 22:] 69

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