The Iranian religious ceremony of rug-washing (qāli-shuyān), commemorating the martyrdom of Emāmzāda Soltān-ʿAli b. Mohammad Bāqer (d. 734/116), is held every year in the second week of autumn in Mashhad-e Ardehāl, a village of Kāshān, Esfahān Province. This ceremony is unique amongst Twelver Shiʿis for its observance in accordance with the solar calendar rather than the lunar. The objective of the present article is to analyze this ceremony and explain its features. The necessary data for this research have been collected from fieldwork on the historical geography of the region and related historical documents. In the analysis of this ceremony, attention is paid to its time, place, and mode of performance. This study suggests that the rug-washing ceremony is at least partly descended from an ancient Mithraic ritual, to which some Zoroastrian features were added in the pre-Islamic period, such as the limiting of its performance to priests; during the Islamic era, ritual Shiʿi elements were further added thereto. As currently performed, this ceremony, exclusive to Ardehāl and dating to the Qajar and possibly Safavid periods, thus bears certain similarities to rituals performed at Karbalāʾ.

伊朗宗教洗地毯仪式 ( qāli-shuyān))，纪念 Emāmzāda Soltān-ʿAli b. 的殉难。Mohammad Bāqer (d. 734/116)，每年秋天的第二周在伊斯法罕省 Kāshān 的一个村庄 Mashhad-e Ardehāl 举行。这个仪式在十二时是独一无二的，因为它是按照太阳历而不是阴历来举行的。本文的目的是分析这个仪式并解释它的特点。这项研究的必要数据是从该地区历史地理和相关历史文献的实地调查中收集的。在分析这个仪式时，注意它的时间、地点和表现方式。这项研究表明，地毯清洗仪式至少部分源自古老的密特拉教仪式，在前伊斯兰时期加入了一些琐罗亚斯德教的特征，例如将其表演限制在牧师身上；在伊斯兰时代，进一步增加了仪式什叶派元素。正如目前所执行的，这个仪式是 Ardehāl 独有的，可以追溯到 Qajar 和可能的 Safavid 时期，因此与在 Karbalāʾ 进行的仪式具有某些相似之处。