Redemptive Suffering in Islām: A Study of the Devotional Aspects of ʻĀshūrāʼ in Twelver Shīʻism

PREFACE
TRANSLITERATION AND ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
1. THE HOUSE OF SORROWS (Bayt al-Aḥzān)
1. The merit of suffering for the pious
2. The participation of ancient prophets in the suffering of the Holy Family
3. The privation and poverty of ahl al-bayt and their favor with God
4. The suffering and death of Fāṭimah, the radiant one, mistress of the House of Sorrows
2. THE PROOFS OF GOD (Ḥujaj Allāh)
1. The creation and substance of the imāms
2. The place of the imāms in human history and their relationship to divine revelation (waḥī)
3. The personality of the imām and signs of his imamate
3. THE MASTER OF THE YOUTHS OF PARADISE (Sayyid Shabāb Ahl al-Jannah)
1. Ḥusayn’s birth and childhood
2. Ḥusayn’s virtues and later years
4. THE WRONGED MARTYR (al-Shahīd al-Maẓlūm)
1. The historical background
2. Early accounts and interpretations of Ḥusayn’s martyrdom
3. Later developments and pietistic interpretations
5. THE SIGH OF THE SORROWFUL (Nafas al-Mahmūm)
1. The merit of weeping for Ḥusayn
2. The ta(zīyah celebration: its growth and general characteristics
3. The place of lamentation poetry (marāthī) in the Muḥarram cultus
4. The zīyārah ritual and its place in Shī(ī piety
6. AT THE POOL OF AL-KAWTHAR ((Alā Ḥawḍ al-Kawthar)
1. Intercession: the reward of suffering
2. The day of the great thirst
3. The faithful remnant
4. Fāṭimah: the mistress of the Day of Judgment
5. al-Mahdī, the final avenger
CONCLUSION
APPENDICES
A. APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 1: ‘THE HOUSE OF SORROWS’
B. APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 3: ‘THE MASTER OF THE YOUTHS OF PARADISE’
C. APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 4: ‘THE WRONGED MARTYR’
D. APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 5: ‘THE SIGH OF THE SORROWFUL’
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX OF NAMES
SUBJECT INDEX