Hashimite King Hussein ibn 'Ali, Caliph al-Islam, King of the Hijaz, Commander of the Faithful, Grand Sharif and Amir of Mecca leaving his palace in...
Black chador-clad women outside shrine honoring Shia martyrs Hussein Ibn Ali & bro. Abbas, monuments of Islamic art dear to Shiite & Sunni Muslims.
Black chador-clad women outside shrine honoring Shia martyrs Hussein Ibn Ali & bro. Abbas, monuments of Islamic art dear to Shiite & Sunni Muslims.
Black chador-clad women outside shrine honoring Shia martyrs Hussein Ibn Ali & bro. Abbas, monuments of Islamic art dear to Shiite & Sunni Muslims.
Black chador-clad women outside shrine honoring Shia martyrs Hussein Ibn Ali & bro. Abbas, monuments of Islamic art dear to Shiite & Sunni Muslims.
Men & chador-clad women outside shrine honoring Shia martyrs Hussein Ibn Ali & bro. Abbas, monuments of Islamic art held dear by Shiite & Sunni...
Men & chador-clad women outside shrine honoring Shia martyrs Hussein Ibn Ali & bro. Abbas, monuments of Islamic art held dear by Shia & Sunni Muslims.
Faithful outside shrine honoring Shia martys Hussein Ibn Ali & bro. Abbas, monuments of Islamic art revered by Shiite & Sunni Muslims.
Faithful outside shrine honoring Shia martyrs Hussein Ibn Ali & bro. Abbas, monuments of Islamic art revered by Shiite & Sunni Muslims.
Heads of state at funeral for Jordan's King Hussein Presidents Bill Clinton , Hosni Mubarak , Ali Abdullah Saleh & Palestinian leader Arafat.
Heads of state at funeral for Jordan's King Hussein incl. France's Chirac & US Pres. Clinton, Egypt's Mubarak, Yemen's Saleh & Palestinian leader...
Man dressed as Shemr the man who cut off Imam Hussein's head, rides on a horse, passing villager onlookers during Ta'zieh on The Day of Ashura in a...
Woman driving a car in south Tehran, drives past a cleric attending The Day of Ashura ceremony which is on the 10th day of Muharram in the Islamic...
Muslim devotees take part in a mourning procession marking the day of Ashura in Istanbul, Turkey on September 30, 2017. Muslims are observing the...
People gather near the Tehran Grand Bazaar as they circle a burning tent at a re-enactment of the battle of Karbala on October 12, 2016 to...
Huge propaganda banner hanging from a ten storey building on the corner of Vali Asr square shows president Barack Obama standing next to Shemr on...
Female pilgrims attend the shrine in Karbala, Iraq. The shrine is holy to Shi'ite Muslims because it contains the tomb of Mashad al Hasayn bin Ali ,...
Pilgrims attend the shrine in Karbala. The shrine is holy to Shi'ite Muslims because it contains the tomb of Mashad al Hasayn bin Ali , the grandson...
An aerial view taken on December 1, 2015 shows Iraqi Shiite pilgrims gathering at the shrine of Imam Abbas ibn Ali, the brother of Imam Hussein,...
An aerial view taken on December 1, 2015 shows Iraqi Shiite pilgrims gathering at the shrines of Immam Abbas ibn Ali and Imam Hussein during the...
Aerial view of Imam Hussein's shrine and Abbas ibn Ali's shrine are seen as Shi'ite people gather during the Arba'een ceremony in the holy city of...
Jacqueline De Cumont, Belgian journalist, sits with Prince Ali Ibn Al Hussein, commandant of the Eastern front.
The Imam Husayn Shrine in Karbala, Iraq, circa 1880. It is one of the oldest mosques in the world, and stands on the grave of Hussein ibn Ali, a...
Shiite Muslim man has water sprayed onto him after having cut himself as part of a self-flagellation ritual during a religious procession marking...
Shiite boy strikes himself with sharpened blades attached to chains as part of a self-flagellation ritual during a religious procession marking...
Water is sprayed onto Shiite Muslim men as they beat their chests as part of a self-flagellation ritual during a religious procession marking Ashura...
Shiite muslim boy strikes himself with sharpened blades attached to chains as part of a self-flagellation ritual during a religious procession...
Shiite boys strike themselves with sharpened blades attached to chains as part of a self-flagellation ritual during a religious procession marking...
Shiite Muslim self-flagellates during a religious procession marking Ashura on November 25, 2012 in New Delhi, India. The religious festival of...
Iraqi women pray at the shrine of Shiite Muslim Imams Mussa ibn Jaafar al-Kazem and Mohammad Ali Jawad in the Shiite neighborhood of al-Kazemiya in...
Shiite Muslim devotee holds a banner showing an illustration of the Imam Abu Al-Fadl Al-Abbas, son of the Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib , as they attend the...
Station master Jawad Khathem prepares to mount a Shi'ite flag on a pole at Baghdad Central Railway Station in preparation for the festival Ashura on...
An Iraqi boy appears behind a sharpnel-riddled wall decorated with a poster of Shiite Imam Hussein and Ali ibn al-Hussein in Baghdad's Sadr City on...
Shiite Muslim devotees gather in Iraq's central holy shrine city of Karbala at the Imam Abu Al-Fadl Al-Abbas shrine on September 17 to mark the...
In this long-exposure picture Shiite Muslim devotees gather in Iraq's central holy shrine city of Karbala on September 16, 2022 on the eve of Arbaeen...
Shiite Muslim devotees of Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitaries raise pictures depicting their late slain commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, and the...
This picture taken on September 16, 2022 shows Shiite Muslim devotees gathering in Iraq's central holy shrine city of Karbala between the Imam Abu...
Shiite Muslim devotees gather in Iraq's central holy shrine city of Karbala on September 16, 2022 between the Imam Abu Al-Fadl Al-Abbas shrine and...
This long-exposure picture taken on September 16, 2022 shows Shiite Muslim devotees gathering in Iraq's central holy shrine city of Karbala between...
Woman prays as Shiite Muslim devotees gather in Iraq's central holy shrine city of Karbala on September 16, 2022 on the eve of Arbaeen , marking 40...
This picture taken on September 16, 2022 shows Shiite Muslim devotees gathering in Iraq's central holy shrine city of Karbala on the eve of Arbaeen ,...
This long-exposure picture taken on September 16, 2022 shows Shiite Muslim devotees gathering in Iraq's central holy shrine city of Karbala at the...
Shiite Muslims gather to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Ali bin Abi Taleb, the cousin, son-in-law and companion of the Prophet Muhammad,...
Shiite Muslims gather to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Ali bin Abi Taleb, the cousin, son-in-law and companion of the Prophet Muhammad,...
Shiite Muslims gather to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Ali bin Abi Taleb, the cousin, son-in-law and companion of the Prophet Muhammad,...
Iraqis demonstrators wave a national and another bearing the words "O Hussein" in Arabic, referring to the prophet Mohamed's grandson Imam Hussein...
Iraqis demonstrators wave a national and another bearing the words "O Hussein" in Arabic, referring to the prophet Mohamed's grandson Imam Hussein...
Shiite Muslims take part in a self-flagelation ritual during a religious procession of the Ashura mourning period on December 17, 2010 in New Delhi,...
Shiite Muslims take part in a self-flagelation ritual during a religious procession of the Ashura mourning period on December 17, 2010 in New Delhi,...
Blood runs down the back of a Shiite Muslims taking part in a self-flagelation ritual during a religious procession of the Ashura mourning period on...
Shiite Muslims take part in a self-flagelation ritual during a religious procession of the Ashura mourning period on December 17, 2010 in New Delhi,...
Blood stains the road as a Shiite Muslim takes part in a self-flagelation ritual during a religious procession of the Ashura mourning period on...
Shiite Muslims take part in a self-flagelation ritual during a religious procession of the Ashura mourning period on December 17, 2010 in New Delhi,...
Shiite Muslim beats his chest as part of a self-flagelation ritual during a religious procession of the Ashura mourning period on December 17, 2010...
Shiite Muslim pilgrim walks in a procession carrying an image depicting the severed head of the Prophet Mohammed's grandson and Shiite Imam, Hussein...
Shiite Muslim pilgrim walks carrying a flag depicting the Prophet Mohammed's cousin Ali ibn Abi Taleb and his two sons Hussein and Abbas , on the...
Blood of a sacrificed lamb flushes out of its throat on the asphalt, while held by men trying to keep the animal still, outside a mosque, in south...
Man with a banknote stuck in his mouth by spectators, carries an Alam , while on march, outside a mosque on The Day of Ashura in south Tehran. Ashura...
Group of women dressed in black chador carry a dummy coffin with poster of Imam on it, in south Tehran on The Day of Ashura which is on the 10th day...
Men wearing white cloth and mud on their faces mourn outside Karbala-e ha mosque on The Day of Ashura in south Tehran. Ashura Day is on the 10th day...