Degree
BS (Social Sciences & Liberal Arts)
Faculty / School
School of Economics and Social Sciences (SESS)
Department
Department of Social Sciences & Liberal Arts
Date of Award
Spring 2022
Date of Submission
2022-08-27
Advisor
Mohammad Nabeel Jafri, Visiting Faculty, Department of Social Sciences
Project Type
SSLA Culminating Experience
Access Type
Restricted Access
Keywords
Abstract
Shiʿa Imams' suffering is a widely held belief among Twelver Shiʿa Muslims. There is substantial literature devoted to the how and why of the Imams' suffering. However, the notion of Imams' suffering is a product of history, where it evolved into what it is now known to be. To comprehend the Imams’ suffering, it is necessary to go back to the early Shiʿa texts, as through these primary texts the classical narratives behind the suffering of the Imams are produced and developed. This research paper aims to comprehend how the notion of suffering has been employed to develop narratives about the Imams' martyrdoms. For this purpose, this project researches a specific work by Sheikh al Mufid (336/338-413 AH or 948/950-1022 CE), a highly prominent Shiʿa Twelver scholar of the 10th century, called Kitab al-Irshad, (composed in Baghdad before al-Mufid turned forty). My aim here is to comprehend the themes of the Imams' martyrdom and how these themes loop throughout the text. Once established, I then study the themes in terms of what they imply and symbolize.
Pages
52
Recommended Citation
Ahsan, S. (2022). Suffering of the Shiʿa Imams: tropes of martyrdom and betrayal within Kitab al-Irshad of Sheikh al-Mufid (Unpublished undergraduate project). Institute of Business Administration, Pakistan. Retrieved from https://ir.iba.edu.pk/sslace/149
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