The Shīʻī passion : Taʻzī yeh, tragedy and the sublime
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis is a study of ta`ziyeh , or the Shi`i passion play commemorating the martyrdom of Husayn b. `Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad. The goal of the work is to provide an aesthetic evaluation of the plays and their tragic and sublime aspects. It begins with a discussion of the historical development of ta` ziyeh and its most important theatrical features. This is followed by an interpretation of ta`ziyeh using Friedrich Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy as a guide. Nietzsche's work on tragedy has not been chosen to equate the Persian plays with Greek theatre, but rather to show how ta` ziyeh embodies certain tragic ideals proposed by the German philosopher. In its final section, the thesis extrapolates from Nietzsche to highlight two important aesthetic aspects of the passion plays: the central role of Husayn in the cosmological drama of Shi`ism, and the sublime nature of ta`ziyeh. Thus, this work tries to compare ta`ziyeh to certain Western conceptions of art, while maintaining that the Persian passion plays are representative of Shi`ism's vital aesthetic dimension.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".