ABSTRACT
IF WE WERE TO discuss all the elements involved in the origin and development of the Ta′ziyeh, it would be necessary to go back 3,000 years to the pre-Islamic era in Iran and to examine Persian mythology and epics such as The Death and Resurrection of Siavush (Marg va Rastakhiz-e Siavush). However, what we can say with certainty is that the Ta′ ziyeh in its complete theatrical form, which dramatized the tragic events of the Karbala plain and the death of Imam Hussein, came into existence only in the mid-eighteenth century.
