Annual Symposium 2016 – Lamenting Karbala: Commemoration, Mourning, and Memory

From the 31st of August to the 2nd of September 2016, the Shīʿah Institute held its second Annual Symposium on the subject of ‘Lamenting Karbala: Commemoration, Mourning, and Memory’, at the Warburg Institute, University of London. The Symposium was an international event; twenty six scholars from the four corners of the world attended and presented their papers.