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The Imam Hussein (AS) Encyclopedia was introduced during a ceremony at the Hadith Studies University in Qom on Thursday. |
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Several officials and academics including Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani and Ayatollah Sheikh Lotfollah Safi Golpayegani attended the event. The 14-volume encyclopedia written in Arabic and Persian covers different aspects and stages of the life of Imam Hussein (AS). The compilation of the book required more than ten years and drew material from many different sources, including the Holy Quran, Hadith sources as well as recent historical research. The collection contains 15 main sections and 138 chapters presented in a layout according to the Quran’s verses, with historical accounts and 400 explanations on misinterpretations that persist in many areas. The fifteen sections include the life of Imam Hussein (AS) from his birth until his martyrdom at Karbala as well as the significance of Ashura. It also contains five innovative route maps of Imam Hussein’s caravan of (AS). The encyclopedia was compiled by Seyyed Mahmud Tabatabaiinejad and Seyyed Ruhollah Seyyed-Tabaii, translator Abdolhadi Masudi, Mehdi Mehrizi and Mohammad Moradi. The electronic version of the encyclopedia was initiated at the Hawzeh website in January 2009 and the book was introduced before the beginning of the month of Muharram during which Shias commemorate the anniversary of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (AS) and his seventy-two companions on Ashura (10th of Muharram).
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