Representation of passion and feeling in the Rituals of Moharram from the view point of Victor Turner and Clifford Geertz

The ritual of Muharram is the largest dramatic community of the Muslims, Which has been widely studied by Ashura Researchers in terms of its form and content, And the researcher, while aware of the research done; has always believed that the understanding of these rituals (from the organizers’ view) has so far been neglected, and thus, Knowing the perception of the organizers led the researcher to enter the field to investigate closely and to get a definite result. The result of research by the researcher in a participatory observation in the field of research, as well as an interview, proved that: siah ـ pushi (funeral black ـ wearing), sineh ـ zani (street procession), zanjir ـ zani (self ـ flagellation with chain), qameh ـ zani (cutting one’s scalp with blade), ta’ziyeh (Passion play), and qorbani (sacrifice), Are a symbolic, meaningful, and mythical ritual that people through this, they transform their lives into meaningful and real worlds, and they hold such a rituals in the cycle of time each year. To achieve this goal, the researcher used an interpretive method based on the Clifford Geertz Cultural Interpretation Theory and the Victor Turner Symbolic Theory to represent their intended meanings; the researcher also used autoethnography and his lived experience to understand the perceptions of meanings from the performer perspective.