Stories
the narratives it tells itself
Karbala.
Husayn's small camp, cut off from the river, refused allegiance to Yazid and was destroyed on the tenth of Muharram. Shia Islam does not commemorate the event so much as refuse to let it finish happening.
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The Scriptures
the texts that carry the stories — and everything elseQuran
Nahj al-Balagha