An account of conveying religious concepts to children and adolescents
The statistics of participants in this year's Arbaeen pilgrimage ceremony, according to the announcement of the Al-Abbas Holy Threshold, also passed the 21 million and 500 thousand people mark. A ceremony that for years now, as a sweet experience, has attracted various strata of the people.
The sweetness and appeal of this ceremony have caused it to make its way into the cultural industries as well. The tabletop game (board game) "Mokebdar" is one of the creative instances of cultural products with an Arbaeen pilgrimage storyline.
This game has been published by the "Rotab" cultural institute. An institute whose main activity is producing cultural products suitable for the children's age range and which evokes the atmosphere of the Arbaeen journey and the mourning of Imam Hussein (AS).
To become better acquainted with this business, we sat down to talk with Seyyed Ali Akbar Negahban, founder of the "Teb" group.
The value of the board game market in 2022 was estimated at 12 billion dollars. A figure that in 2023 increased to 31 billion dollars. This pastime is popular in Iran as well and can have its own fans among devotees of the Arbaeen pilgrimage journey.
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian