Pilgrimage to Karbala : Iran, Iraq, and Shia Islam

The Resource Pilgrimage to Karbala : Iran, Iraq, and Shia Islam
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Pilgrimage to Karbala : Iran, Iraq, and Shia Islam
Title remainder
Iran, Iraq, and Shia Islam
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a Maya Vision International production for Thirteen/WNET New York and Channel 4
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Iran, Iraq, and Shia Islam
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eng
Summary
In the summer of 2006, as the Iranian-backed Hezbollah fought off Israelis in Lebanon and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad faced down President George Bush at the United Nations, a bus full of Iranian pilgrims left Tehran on a journey to the holy city of Karbala, deep inside a shattered Iraq. "Pilgrimage To Karbala" follows this intense 5-day journey into the heartlands of Shia Islam, revealing many of the attitudes, beliefs, and emotions that add to the complexity of modern Islam. The odyssey takes on spiritual and historical dimensions as each traveler recalls past anxieties and dangers - having lived through Iran's 1979 revolution and its war with Iraq - and each marvels at the chance to experience the longed-for Karbala pilgrimage, impossible during Saddam Hussein's rule. The film reveals how two ancient crimes – the murder of Muhammad’ s grandson and the disappearance of a six-year-old imam – became the founding legends of Shiism and increasingly dominate events and attitudes in the Middle East today. Anchor Daljit Dhaliwal talks with Dr. Vali Nasr, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations and author of The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future
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GZM
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videorecording
Credits note
Director: Kevin Sim; producer: Rebecca Dobbs
Date time place
Documentary; premiered on the PBS television program Wide Angle, March 16, 2007
Intended audience
No rating, but viewer discretion advised due to scenes of violence
LC call number
BP192.7.I7
LC item number
P56 2007
Runtime
86
Technique
live action

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