چکیده:
The Battle of Karbala is one of the most significant events in Shi‘a history. Since the purpose of literature is to allow one to empathize with the lives of exemplary people and perceive significant historic events, there have been countless poets who strove to illustrate the persona of Imam Husayn and the battle of Karbala. This paper seeks to describe genera within Shi‘a poetry pertaining to the tragic experience of Imam Husayn and his family members and companions on the plains of Karbala. The specific genres include Husayni,Karbalai, Ashurai, and Ashura-oriented literature.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"Reflections on Ashura-oriented Literature Muhammad-Reza Fakhr-Rohani1 The Battle of Karbala is one of the most significant events in Shi‘a history.
With the occurrence of this tragic event in early Islamic history, a plethora of poets composed numerous poems in commemoration of the martyrdom of Imam Husayn and his family members and companions.
It is meant to fill a 1 Granted that the earliest pieces of Ashura poetry were composed on Ashura by the survivors of the Ashura Battle of Karbala in Arabic, the 6th Infallible Imam Ja`far al-Sadiq played a decisive role in encouraging Arab poets to compose poems, especially elegies, to mourn Imam Husayn’s tragic martyrdom.
3 The contemporary Iraqi scholar, Sayyid Salman Aal Tu`mah, uses the term "Karbalayi poetry" for the poems composed by those Iraqi-cum-Arabic- speaking poets who are regarded as citizens of Karbala; see his book Husayn fi al-Shi‘r al-Karbalayi ([Beirut: Mu’assisah al-Fikr al-Islami, 1422 AH/2001], p.
1 Ashura-oriented literature broadly deals with the sorrowful episodes in the life and times of Imam Husayn, Karbala, and the tragic events of Ashura.
These poems and prose take a number of forms: 1) Husayni literature, which pertains to the Imam’s life, 2) Karbala literature, relating to the sanctity and scenes of the tragic event, 3) Ashura literature, the events surrounding the eve and day of Ashura, and 4) Ashura- oriented literature, an extended sequential account of Imam Husayn, from his birth until his martyrdom."