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/teuh zee"yeuh/, n. (in Shi'ite Islam)a passion play commemorating the martyrdom of Hussein, grandson of Muhammad and son of Ali and Fatima, on the tenth of Muharram, A.D. 680.[ < Ar ta'ziyah lit., consolation]
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