Amali: Representation of the Position and Personality of Hazrat Zahra (A.S) in Sheikh Tusi's Intellectual System

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1 Department of History, Facultyof Letters and Humanities, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

2 , Department of History, Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.

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Amali: Representation of the Position and Personality of Hazrat Zahra (A.S) in Sheikh Tusi's Intellectual System
intellectual legacy of previous Imami scholars and their views on the personality and status of Hazrat Zahra (PBUH) has been influential in establishing an independent title in the books of Imami authors on the life of her (A.S). Considering the two factors of Sheikh Tusi's (d. 460 AH) influence on later scholars in various fields and the holding of his Amali’s sessions in the city of Najaf, at the peak of his intellectual maturity and the formation of his ideological system, examining how the personality and position of Hazrat Zahra (A.S) are represented in his Amali, has formed the main issue of the present article.
The results of this text-based research, which was conducted using a historical method, show that the method of selecting and narrating narrations by Sheikh Tusi, namely, drawing the audience's attention to the personal dimensions of Hazrat Fatima (A.S), highlighting her virtues, defending the right of Imam ‘Ali (A.S) to caliphate and succession; and linking this to his oppression after the death of the Prophet (PBUH), focused the attention of the audience present at his Amali sessions and the readers of his book on the status and personality of Hazrat Zahra (A.S) and was effective in expanding the Shiite Ahl-albayt's writing to the lives of the Fourteen Masoum (A.S).

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Iranian History of Culture
Volume 1, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
Spring & Summer
March 2024
Pages 111-124

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  • Receive Date: 07 January 2024
  • Revise Date: 25 January 2024
  • Accept Date: 30 January 2024
  • Publish Date: 20 March 2024

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