A Study of Shiite Manifestations in the First Abbasid Era "A Case Study of the Poems of Hussein Ibn Zahak"

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

• Mohsen Mohammadi ¹
• Mohammad Ebrahim Khalife Shustari ²

¹ PhD student, Arabic Language and Literature, Shahid Beheshti university, Tehran, Iran

² Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

10.22067/jhistory.2023.76335.1121

Abstract

Abstract

Religious and Shiite thought has had a special place among Muslim poets in different eras, the literature of the Abbasid era also turned to this poetic approach due to their religious beliefs. Hussein Ibn Zahak, one of the Iranian, Tabar, Khorasan and Arabic poets of the Abbasid era, was the first to be influenced by the Holy Quran and the expression of religious beliefs, including the theme of Ashura and the Ahl al-Bayt, infallibility and purity, along with themes related to wind drinking and Male lyric poetry is the dominant content of his poems. Influenced by the great event of Karbala and Ashura, in the era of Abbasid suffocation, the poet expressed sorrow, struggle, expression of devotion, and love and expression of honor and dignity of the Ahlul Bayt of the Prophet (PBUH) and in this way was able to prove his position. Imam Hussein and Ahl al-Bayt (AS) should mention. In this research, by means of content analysis, the poet's religious thoughts and love and devotion, which are dealt with with sincere emotions and full of emotion and simple and explicit language that are sometimes accompanied by irony and irony, the dynamics and reach of these themes is such that the audience , Realizes the truths in the life of the Ahl al-Bayt (AS) in the event of Ashura, and connects their feelings with that great event.

Keywords

• Abbasid era
• poetry
• Shiites
• Ahl al-Bayt (AS)
• Hussein bin Zahak

Main Subjects

• History of Islam

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