 Ignaz Goldzie, the famous Hungarian Orientalist, Scholar Wright. Avas and the Blau Day of Karbala, the history of this family has been a continuous series of sufferings and persecutions. These are narrated in poetry and prose and richly calculated literature of martyrology, a Shi'i speciality, and from the theme of Shi'i gatherings in the first third of the month of Muharram, whose tenth day Ashura is kept as the anniversary of the tragedy at Karbala. Things of that tragedy are also presented in this day of commemoration in dramatic form. Our feast days are our assemblies of mourning, so concludes a poem of a prince of Shi'i disposition recalling the many man of the Prophet's family, weeping and lamentation of the evils and persecutions suffered by the Alec family, and mourning for its martyrs. These are things from which loyal supporters of the cause cannot seize, more touching than tears of the Shi'is, has even become an Arabic quote.