zahra rooholahiamiri

Understanding the value of the historical heritage of hadith scholars and its effect on the addressee’s mind regarding the issues of Ahl al-Bayt and the Shiites of the Umayyad period, and with the aim to discover the existing thematic network in those texts and achieving a model for explaining their general logic and structure, the present study attempts to answer the following question: “What themes do the hadith scholars present to their addressees in registering the news of Ahl al-Bayt and the Shiites?” To find the answer, we first investigated the historical heritage of the hadith scholars in this regard and, then, selected the following sources: Tārīkh Khalīfa bin Khayyāṭ (Ibn Khayyat, 240 AH); the extant parts of al-Ma‘rifa wal-Tārīkh (Fasavi, 277 AH); Tārīkh al-Umam wal-Mulūk (Tabari, 310 AH); al-Muntaẓam fī Tārīkh al-Umam wal-Mulūk (Ibn Jowzi, 597 AH). Then, the data related to the news of Ahl al-Bayt and the Shiites were extracted, and using the method of thematic analysis and its stages, the data were analyzed and the themes hidden in various sources were discovered. We found four overarching themes as follows: “Shiism: a political-religious movement”, “the Shiites’ perpetual threats for governments”, “efforts to suppress the Shiites based on religion”, and “suppression of the Shiites along with undergoing damages”. Considering the approach of the hadith scholars to caliphate, these themes are for legitimizing the behaviors of Umayyad rulers in suppressing Ahl al-Bayt and the Shiites.

The Husseinis are a group of descendants of Imam Hussein (AS) who migrated to Egypt in the third century. Considering the fact that the Hosseini were one of the Bani Hashem tribes in Hejaz, why their presence in Egypt and their position in the governments is a question that has been addressed in this article. The Hosseinis went to Egypt for various reasons, such as intra-family disputes, giving them fiefdoms, and the presence of governments such as the Fatimids, and obtained political positions such as niqab, lawyer, military judge, and academic positions such as teachers of schools and mosques. The social position of the Husseinis in Egypt caused one of the most important districts of Cairo to be named after them, because of this position, people other than this family who lived in this area were also called Husseinis. The importance of this area led to the settlement of the Mamluk government and military forces in it. In addition, Hosseinieh neighborhood was also an economic place for buying and selling slaves. This neighborhood was destroyed by the year 821 for various reasons, the most important of which can be considered the moral changes in this area due to the presence of the Uiratis.

The present study tries to answer the question "What topics do the companions of hadith present to the audience in recording Kharijite narretive?" by understanding the value of the historical heritage of the Companions of Hadith and its impact on the minds of the audience of these works on the subject of the Kharijites of the Umayyad era and with the aim of discovering the thematic network in these texts and to achieve a pattern that explains their general logic. First, the historical heritage of the Companions of Hadith was studied in this field, and among the existing works, Tarikh Khalifa Bin Khayyat (Ibn Khayyat 240 AH), the remains of AL-Ma’refa Va Tarikh (Faswi 277 AH),Tarikh al- Umam Va al-Molouk (Tabari 310 AH), al-Montazam fi Tarikh al- Umam Va al-Molouk, (Ibn Jawzi 597 AH) were selected and the data related to the Kharijite narretives were extracted from them and then the data analysis method and its various steps were performed to analyze the data and discover the themes hidden in the selected sources and led to the discovery of four themes incuding the political-religious and pragmatic current, the constant threats of the Kharijites to the government, the repression of the Kharijites at great cost and the Islamic nature of the Kharijite repression. And these themes are against the suppression of the Kharijites, according to the approach of the hadiths to the caliphate, in order to legitimize the behavior of the Umayyads.

This paper understands the value of the historical heritage of the Companions of Hadith and its impact on the minds of the audience of these works on the subject of the conquests of the Umayyad era and with the aim of discovering the thematic network in these texts to achieve a model that explains their general logic and structure. It tries to answer this question: "What topics do the companions of hadith present to the audience in recording the news of the conquests?" To find this answer, we first studied the historical heritage of the Companions of Hadith in this regard among the existing works, the history of Khalifa Ibn Khayyat (Ibn Khayyat 240 AH), the remains of the book al-Ma'rifah wa al-Tarikh (Faswi 277 AH), Tarikh al-Umma wa al-Muluk (Tabari 310 AH), Al-Mu'tazim Fi Tarikh Al-Umam wa al-Muluk, (Abd al-Rahman Ibn Jawzi 597 AH) were selected and data related to the news of the conquests were extracted from them, and then the thematic analysis method and the implementation of its various stages were used to analyze the data and discover the themes hidden in the selected sources, which are in the form of five themes. These are the Islamic conquests, the rule of the Muslims over the open areas and the enjoyment of its interests, the military power of the Muslims, the military superiority of the Muslims over the enemy, the power of the enemy over the Muslims. These themes are in line with the legitimacy of the Umayyads, according to the approach of the Companions of Hadith to the Caliphate.

The circumstances of man’s role alongside the universal laws of history is a topic that has engaged the minds of historians. Considering the various theological schools of thought and different jurispudential denominations in the Islamic world, the viewpoint of the Muslim historians - who believe in the Divine customs  and are usually inclined towards one of these schools and denominations or are attributed to them -   regarding the matter of determinism and choice and how they connect this with their view through analyzation and explanation of historical events and how they relate the directorship of God to the actions of man, is a worthy topic of study.
This article tries to examine the viewpoint of the famous historian Abul Abbas Taqi ud-Din Maqrizi {845 A.H.} of the Shafi-‘I jurispudential and Ash-‘ari theological school of thought who lived during the Mamluk Sultanate in this regard using a descriptive-analytical approach and through researching related material in his works and comparing that to his theological inclination.
The findings of this research show that despite his deterministic inclination and his belief in the viewpoint of “Attainment”  of the Ash-‘arites, in his historiographies , while relying on religious texts, he is inclined towards man’s choice and free will and his active role in historical events.

The strategic areas like Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine during the significant historical era of Ayubids up to the end of Mamalik have been observant of the most important events of the political history such as constant crusade wars and Mongolian assault. These military and political happenings along with the cultural and social situations of this era provided the development of various intellectual trends among the Sunnites and Shiites of this region.
Reviewing these intellectual trends can be valuable in regard with the identification of historical origins of the present intellectual and political events in this part of the Islamic world.
Relying on descriptive-analytical approach, the present article is to answer the question related to the identification of effective intellectual trends as the historical heritage in this area following the investigation of cultural and social conditions of this area during Ayubids and Mamalik era.
The findings of research illustrates that it can be referred to the development of Sufism and some deviated Shiite and Sunnite trends as well as revealing prejudice in dealing with the great thinkers.