Editing Mirza ali shafai (section)

==Pardekhani in the Past and Present== 
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Mirza Ali lives in a village, is responsible for religious ceremonies, solving people's conflicts, curtain-storytelling, [[Maddahi]] (spiritual praising), [[Naqqali]] (epic narrative), Azan (call to prayer), and Ta'ziya-khani (sung playing) in his social and religious life. Mirza Ali knows curtain-storytelling to be his duty he tries to guide himself and others through it. These characteristics have become less pronounced among city-dwellers who with abstract spaces and new ways of life in the social lives of people with strong class contrasts, look at Pardekhani (curtain-storyteling) as a profession and a means of survival. In its ideal aspect, Pardekhani is symbol of traditional performances, which will be able to survive in this untrue form depending upon their protection by cultural institutions. With a comparison of the work and lives of curtain-narrators of the city and villages we can, to some extent, distinguish the difference between the past and present of Pardekhani traditions. The importance of surveying Mirza Ali's storytelling is in the fact that his main profession is farming and animal husbandry and so is not economically dependent on Pardekhani and in principle villages people do not look on ritual performances as a profession. Through this subject we can look at the origins of Ma'rekegiri (Juggler displaying) and street performances with this question: Are these a product of city life and cities, or are their origins in the ancient rituals and non-urban life?