Maaref Hossaini

Maaref Hossaini

A Portrayal of Imam al-Husayn in the Arabic Novel "A Little Girl's Memoirs of Karbala"

Authors
1 Associate Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Hakim Sabzevari University
2 Senior expert in Arabic language translation
Abstract
The novel consists of imaginative and hypothetically reconstructed journals of Hz. Ruqayyah, an under-aged and martyred daughter of Imam al-Husayn. The book is a work of the Lebanese novelist Rajaa Muhammad Bitar. It vividly portrays various aspects of Imam al-Husayn's character and moral traits as depicted by his daughter throughout the time-span from leaving Medina thourough the Ashura Battle of Karbala.
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