{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_hus_hus01_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_hus_hus01_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_hus_hus01_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/hus/hus01.htm","summary":"This is a hagiographic tribute prefacing a Shia Islamic lamentation text \u2014 a *maqtal* (martyrdom narrative) of Imam Al-Husayn \u2014 composed by Sheikh Abdul-Zahr\u00e1' Al-Ka`bee, a preacher from Karbala whose annual Ashurah recitations were broadcast on Iraqi radio starting in 1379 A.H. The biographical introduction memorializes the sheikh's ascetic piety, charity, and decades of work training a generation of preachers across Iraq, Iran, and the Gulf. Its central claim is that the sheikh was the authoritative living voice of Husaynid mourning culture: his recitation of the two-part martyrdom story \u2014 the battle of Karbala on Ashurah and the fate of the captives on the 40th day \u2014 drew crowds of thousands in Karbala's streets and was distributed on recordings to mosques and husayniyyas across the Muslim world. The text frames the sheikh's entire life as a form of devotional service to Imam Al-Husayn and the Prophet's Household, presenting his personal humility, sleeplessness, and public mourning rituals as inseparable from his religious mission. Readers interested in Shia commemorative practice, the role of oral-performative lamentation in Iraqi religious culture, or the biography of a mid-twentieth-century clerical figure will find this a primary-source window into that tradition.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"\"The Battle of Karbala\": A Biography of `Abdul-Zahr&aacut...","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":909}