The tenth categories in Imam Hussein’s epic

Document Type : Research Paper

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مدرس دانشگاه

Abstract

Philosophically viewed, one can agreed with to be of a nearly complete understanding of an event only when having perceived it in the ten categories of substance, quantity, quality, place, time, position, state, relation, action and affection. This pen, using the tenth categories, has intended to present a comprehensive study of Imam Hussein’s epic. In this view, by the substance of the epic is meant its state of being defensive or offensive, opposing injustice or refusing it or both.
    By the accidental categories, the properties of the people in two opposing groups, centricity of Imam Hussein in relation to his faithful friends, the why-ness for the time and place of the event, the vinner and the defeated, the affection of the event in history has been meant.

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