Ebû Mihnef’ten Ebû İshâk el-İsferâyinî’ye Arapça Bir Maktelin Anatomisi: Nûru’l-‘Ayn fî Meşhedi’l-Hüseyn Üzerine Bazı Tespitler
From Abū Miḫnaf to Abū Isḥāq al-Isfarāinī Analysis of an Arabic Maqtal: Some Notes on Nūr al-ʿAyn fī Mashhad al-Ḥusayn

Summary/Abstract: Nūr al-ʿayn fī mashhad al-Ḥusayn is one of the Arabic maqtals which has not been a subject to the scholarly research from the aspect of authenticity and source value, if excepted the article by George Kanazi, where the author through applying the philological method evaluates it as a ref-lection of the Karbalā event on the folklore. Inspite of being publicated more than ten times from the second half of the 19th century, still not having a critical edition, Nūr al-ʿAyn fī Mashhad al-Ḥusayn is assumed as a maqtal written by the prominent Shāfiʿī-Ashʿarī scholar Abū Isḥāq al-Isfarāinī (d. 418/1027) without being properly analyzed and because of literal reading of its certain passages. Using the data analysis method this study will investigate the process of attribution of Nūr al-ʿAyn fī Mashhad al-Ḥusayn to Abū Isḥāq al-Isfarāinī and examine the state of its belongingness to the referred scholar within the context of his biography and works reached to the present day. Then, using the comparative analysis method, the connecting link among these four books will be investigated, Nūr al-ʿAyn fī Mashhad al-Ḥusayn and Qurrat al-ʿAyn fī Akhdh Thār al-Ḥusayn, which follows it up in manuscripts as well as printed versions, and two other books on the same subject, Maqtal al-Ḥusayn and Thār al-Ḥusayn attributed to Abū Miḫnaf (d. 157/773). Finally, the originality of Nūr al-ʿAyn fī Mashhad al-Ḥusayn will be evaluated by comparing its similar and different features with Maqtal al-Ḥusayn. [You may find an extended abstract of this article after the bibliography.]

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