A Study of the Poems of Sayyed Musa Taleghani, a Contemporary Iraqi Poet, in Praise of Imam Hosayn (AS)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 PhD in Arabic Language and Literature, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Arabic Literature, Payame Noor University, Kermanshah, Iran

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Culture and Media, Shahid Mahallati University, Qom, Iran

Abstract

Along with the history of Shiism and the formation of political literature, lamentation on the sufferings of the Infallible Imams (AS) as one of the literary genres, has shown itself in the committed literature section. The uprising of Imam Hosayn (AS) and the incident of Ashura have caused many thinkers and talented people in the Islamic world to use their pens and imaginations in order to draw and introduce his uprising. Sayyed Musa Taleghani, one of the poets of Arabic literature in the nineteenth century, tried to perpetuate his ideological belief in the form of sorrow and imagination through artistic language. The present study, using a descriptive method, while examining his poems, seeks to answer the questions: what are the prominent themes of Hosayni's epic in the poetry of Musa Taleghani and which literary method did he use to properly reflect the character of Imam Hosayn (AS) and especially the events of Ashura? The research findings show that he used natural elements and heritage of the past to express his emotions and feelings.

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