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Tiles of Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque, Isfahan
Credit: User:مانفی

Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque (Persian: مسجد شیخ لطف الله) is one of the architectural masterpieces of Safavid Iranian architecture, standing on the eastern side of Naghsh-i Jahan Square, Isfahan, Iran.


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Imam Reza shrine
Credit: user:Mohebin14

Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad.


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Mourning of Muharram in cities and villages of Iran
Credit: Payam Moein

Mourning of Muharram is held in majority of cities and villages in Iran by Shia Muslims annually. Although all sort of ceremonies are performed for Imam Hossein and his followers martyrdom remembrance, they have different styles and rules referring to various cultures.


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Imam Ali Mosque
Credit: User:Zviad Avaliani

Imam Ali Mosque in Marneuli in Georgia.


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Birmingham Quran manuscript
Credit: Anonymous

Two leaves of an early Quranic manuscript in the Mingana Collection of Middle Eastern manuscripts of the University of Birmingham's Cadbury Research Library were discovered in 2015 as being dated between 568 and 645, making it one of the oldest Quran manuscripts to have survived.


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A Tazieh scene
Credit: Payam Moein

A Tazieh scene which is a kind of Passion Play on the tragic fate of Husayn ibn Ali in Karbala.


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Hall of Nasir ol Molk Mosque.
Credit: Ayyoubsabawiki

The Nasir ol Molk Mosque, also known as the Pink Mosque, is a traditional mosque in Shiraz, Iran. It is located at the district of Gowad-e-Arabān, near Shāh Chérāgh Mosque.


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li is the vicegerent of God' (Arabic: علي ولي الله) in obverse and reverse
Credit: Mahmoud Ibrahim

Example of mirror writing in Islamic calligraphy. 18th-century Ottoman levha, or calligraphic panel, which depicts the Shi'i phrase 'Ali is the vicegerent of God' (Arabic: علي ولي الله) in obverse and reverse, creating an exact mirror image. The calligrapher has used the central vertical fold in the thick cream-colored paper to help trace the exact calligraphic duplication (Selim 1979, 162) prior to mounting it onto a cardboard and pasting rectangular pink frames along its borders.


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A calligraphy of prophet Muahmmad's hadith regarding helping the poor
Credit: Ali Ra'if Efendi

A calligraphy of prophet Muahmmad's hadith regarding helping the poor.


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Assassination of Ali
Credit: Yousef Abdinejad

Ali ibn Abi Talib, the fourth (last) Sunni Rashidun caliph and first Shia Imam, was assassinated by a Kharijite called Ibn Muljam on 26 January 661 at the Great Mosque of Kufa, in present-day Iraq.


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Imam Husayn Shrine
Credit: Amir Hesaminejad

This is the mosque and burial site of Al-Husayn ibn ‘Ali, the third Imam of Shia Islam, in the city of Karbala’, Iraq. It stands on the site of the Mausoleum of Imam Husayn, who was a grandson of Muhammad, near the place where he was martyred during the Battle of Karbala’ in 680 C.E.