Canfield, Robert L. "New Year's Day at Ali's Shrine." In Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East, edited by Donna Lee Bowen and Evelyn A. Early, 234-238. Indiana Series in Arab and Islamic studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.

Canfield's chapter is short, but very descriptive.  He portrays the sights, sounds, and smells at Ali's tomb on a particular 1968 Navruz in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan as well as the rituals performed there and the hope for healings and blessings.