Jarigan (
Persian Jari/zari for lamentation and
Bengali
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gan for song) or (song of sorrow) is one of the few indigenous music art performances of
Bangladesh,
West Bengal,
Barak Valley and
Brahmaputra Valley . Though varied and divergent in form, most are based on legends relating to Muslim heroes
Hasan ibn Ali and
Husayn ibn Ali
Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, أبو عبد الله الحسين بن علي بن أبي طالب; 10 January 626 – 10 October 680) was a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a son of Ali ibn Abi ...
, grandsons of
Muhammad and other members of his family at
Karbala
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. The most renowned is jari gan from eastern Mymensingh, which commemorates the death of Hosain at Karbala. The performers, who are male Sunni Muslims, work chiefly as farmers.
The origins of Jarigan may be traced back to the early 17th century when poetry started being written on the tragic stories of Karbala. One of the earliest recorded is Muhammad Khan's poem on Karbala titled Maktul Hussain (The Martyrdom of Hussain) in 1645, when Shi'ism had reached
Bengal via
Persia.
References
Bangladeshi music
Bengali music
Islamic music
Sufi music
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