Editing Taziyeh: Ritual and Drama in Iran (section)

== About the book ==
The original book  "Ta'ziya: Ritual and Drama in Iran", which is in the English language, includes articles presented to the International  Ta'ziya Assembly. This assembly was held with the presence of theater artists, musicians, historians and sociologists in the summer of 1355 (1396 AH, 1973 CE) in Shiraz.

This book was translated by Dawood Hatami in Persian and has been published in 1000 copies at one time by Samat Publications. In view of the translator, "The present book is a brand new and beneficial work, at least for those who are familiar with the performing arts. New in the sense that, it is undoubtedly, the first academic work in its own realm; and beneficial because of the different and diverse dimensions of the subject matter"

The collector also mentions in the introduction, "The articles present in this book thoroughly trace the origins of the mourning ceremony of [[Muharram]] up to the level of the display and theater"

The original book is in 288 pages and about 3,565,469 copies of it have been sold.