 History records 10 such Taarajs also known as "Taraj-e-Shia" between the 15th and 19th centuries in 1548, 1585, 1635, 1686, 1719, 1741, 1762, 1801, 1830, 1872 during which the Shia habitations were plundered, people slaughtered, libraries burnt and their sacred sites desecrated.Shia in India faced persecution by some Sunni rulers and Mughal Emperors which resulted in the killings of Shia scholars like Qazi Nurullah Shustari (also known as "Shaheed-e-Thaalis", the third Martyr) and Mirza Muhammad Kamil Dehlavi (also known as" Shaheed-e- Rabay", the fourth Martyr) who are two of the five martyrs of Shia Islam.Shias in Kashmir in subsequent years had to pass through the most atrocious period of their history.