A Comparative Study of Hasan Esmaeilzade Paintings with Ashura Subject with Maqtal Rozat-Al-Shohada Context

This article is a comparative study about the relationship between content of "Rozat-Al-Shohada" and depicted stories of "Qahve-Khaneh" paintings of Ashura. In Qahve-Khaneh paintings, so many stories are observable just on one painting canvas, when there is not exact information about origins of many of them. It seems that possibility of sources of these stories is something ranked between historic events, elegies and lamentations, sermons, taziahs and superstitions. It is presumable that one of the most important sources of these depicted stories are "Maqtals"-historic books about how on "Ashura" day "Imam Husain" and his loyal friends martyred in "Karbala"- and one of the most famous and popular maqtals between people is Rozat-Al-Shohada written by "Molla Husain Kashefi". Having wealthy literary prose and combining incidents with some details more than historic stories caused prevalence of Rozat-Al-Shohada in the latest ten century- anno hegirae- and after it as this book affected sermon rites and Taziahs and religious paintings after it; whereas, it s historic credit is criticized by most of the researchers. This article studies some of paintings drawn by "Hasan Ismaelzadeh" - one of the most famous painters of Qahve-Khane painting style- which declare Ashura incident as case study according to content of rozat-Al-Shohada to clarify how much these stories are affected by the book. In the next step how much rozat-Al-Shohada s stories are right historically is probed." hemaseye Hosayni" and "Lolo va Marjan" are two books written by "Morteza Motahari" and "Mohades Noori" about falsifications and permutations of Ashura incident and "Nafas-Al-Mahmoom" and "Lohoof" written by "Abbas Qomi" and "Ibn Tavoos" are two maghtals described this epoch mostly right historically, according to most researcher s idea, are the books that are used to distinct real historic stories from the others. This article clarifies although Qahvekhaneh painters were strongly affected by Rozat-Al-Shohada, the influence of the other Maqtals and also stories and legends about Karbala incident which are popular between people are not ignorable. Painters often preferred stories that impressed themselves and their addresses emotionally no matter how much historically they are right.