Analysis of condition the localization of the Ashura ritual in Iran

Ashura rituals, as one of the important components of Shiite culture, arise from a historical fact that has gradually acquired a social nature. These rituals, like any other social phenomenon, have unique features that will have their own spatial effects throughout history. the localization of the ritual matter depends on going through a long historical and social process. This research seeks to examine this historical and social process by recognizing the nature of ritual from the perspective of social sciences such as anthropology and sociology to find different aspects of how the physical and spatial manifestations of each of these aspects Explain the ritual and explain how the historical and social process of localization of the Ashura ritual. For this purpose, theoretical and historical data are reviewed based on a research method called qualitative content content analysis. Based on this research method, an open coding is performed based on the nature of the ritual, which provides a three-dimensional definition of the ritual. This study shows that the ritual as a metaphor is a reflection of the culture of a society and at the same time as a disciplinary matter is a pattern of behavior and regulatory system and in addition a dramatic matter can be It counts. Then, by classifying the historical data based on the above-mentioned open coding or the same aspects of the ritual, the basic concepts of analysis in research are produced. These concepts illuminate the spatial and physical manifestations of the emergence, metamorphose, and historical evolution of each of the metaphorical, disciplinary, and theatrical aspects of the ritual. Finally, by summarizing these concepts, the themes or the final results of the research can be obtained, which represent the historical process of localization of Ashura rituals. The findings of this study show that the historical process of localization of Ashura rituals in the history of post-Islamic Iran has gone through three different historical periods. Each period can be identified based on how the metaphorical, disciplinary and theatrical aspects of the ritual took place. Also, how these aspects emergenceed, metamorphosed and evolved leads the Ashura ritual to create different spatial features. The first period coincides with the reign of Albuyeh in the first centuries AH. During this period, the emergence of the disciplinary aspect of Ashura Rituals led to the establishment of lamentation tents in the Bazaars of cities. In this way, the first step of localizing the Ashura ritual is formed by producing pointing ritual spaces in the bazaar as the heart of the city. Also, the emergence of the metaphorical aspect of Ashura mirrors takes place in this period, but ritual from this perspective does not have the opportunity to appear in space until the second stage, ie the Safavid period in the ninth and tenth centuries AH. In the second period, with the evolution of the metaphorical aspect, rituals are performed in the private spaces of homes. These private spaces are associated with the establishment of the Recitation of Rawza tradition. the Recitation of Rawza tradition is also the cause of the dramatic aspect of Ashura rituals. The evolution of the disciplinary aspect of the religion in this period, with efforts to expand and control local conflicts at the same time during the performance of Ashura rituals, causes the ritual matter to be located in the city streets as a platform for mourning groups. Eventually, in order for the government to control the performance of rituals, these routes end in government squares. The third period is contemporaneous with the Qajar period, in which ritual spaces acquire the character of a theater and a museum, which is due to the evolution of the metaphorical aspect of ritual. In this period of dramatic development, the ritual in the last stage of its localization process leads to the expansion of the construction of Tekyeh's and Hosseiniyah's based on the spatial and physical pattern of Khanghah's of Sufies and circular axes of movement of mourning groups. In this way, the movement of mourning groups started from a local Tekyeh and after crossing the streets and squares of the city and Bazar, it ended again in the same original Tekyeh. The localization of ritual in the third period leads to the creation of classified, feminized, museum, and theatrical ritual spaces, and forms the last stage of this historical process.