Chup Tazia

Chup Tazia (Bengali: চুপ তাজিয়া; Urdu: چُپ تَعِزْیَہ) or silent tazia is the name given to religious processions held mostly on 8th of Rabi' al-awwal by Twelver Shia Muslims in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan to commemorate the death of Imam Hasan al-Askari, the eleventh of the Twelver Shi'a Imams.

[2] The tradition of Chup Tazia originated in the Indian city of Lucknow before spreading to other parts of South Asia.

[3] The procession dates back to the nawabi era and was started by Nawab Ahmed Ali Khan Shaukat Yar Jung, a descendant of Bahu Begum.

[1][8][9] On 26 May 1969, after a series of clashes and murders[needs context], another riot broke out when a Shia Alam and Chup Tazia procession which had until that point passed through the predominantly Sunni mohallas of Pul Ghulam and Mahmoodnagar peacefully, was suddenly brick-batted from a Sunni mosque as the procession reached Mahmoodnagar.

In 1998, Syed Ali Abbas Naqvi started Chup Tazia juloos in Kamoke-Gujranwala, Pakistan.