Analyzing the style of Seyyed Ahmed Ardakani in the writing of Rouda Hosseiniyeh

Subject Areas : Historical (with literary and artistic features)

Zahra Yazdani ¹ , Alireza Ghojezade ^{2 *} , Ashraf Chegini ³

1 - PhD student, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Varamin-Pishva Branch, Islamic Azad University, Varamin-Pishva, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Varamin-Pishva Branch, Islamic Azad University, Varamin-Pishva, Iran.
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Varamin-Pishva Branch, Islamic Azad University, Varamin-Pishva, Iran.

Received: 2024-01-03 Accepted : 2024-07-31 Published : 2025-06-22

Keywords: Hosseiniyyah cemetery, Seyyed Ahmad Ardakani, Maktal writing, Shiite texts.,

Abstract :

The method of creating a work is an important category in writing a work; Especially if that work narrates a historical event. The use of documents, honest and impartial narration, mention of events in order, according to history and comprehensiveness are important features of a historical work. In addition, that knowledge of a work and its author helps to understand the texts of his class and contemporaries. Rouda Hosseiniyyah of Seyyed Ahmad Ardakani, Shia scholar, historian and commentator (13 A.H.) contains a collection of authentic Shia narrations, which Ardakani wrote in his works; such as Muthira al-Ahzan Ibn Namahali, Al-Amali Sheikh Sadouq, Al-Wari Tabarsi’s declaration, Al-Mahhouf Sayyid Ibn Tavus and... also commentaries; Like the interpretation of Ibn Abbas, Imam Hasan Asgari (AS) and... have used it. The main subject of this work is the life of Imam Hussain (AS) and the events of Ashura and Karbala. Ardakani's method in narrating each subject, while maintaining the historical order and comprehensiveness of the events, is to present the document and mention the author's name, and sometimes analyze and interpret some of them. Ardakani has also translated verses, verses, quotations, narrations of narrators and narrators. Since Rawda Hosseiniyyah is in Persian and most of the documents used in this book are written in Arabic, Ardakani can be considered one of the first translators of parts of Muqatil's books. It was considered as Lahof Seyyed Tavus and... In addition to its historical status, this work is considered an important document for studying and researching obituary writing.

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