Lecture by Dr Karen Ruffle. She teaches courses in Islamic studies and religions of South Asia in the University of Miami. Her research interests focus on Shi‘i devotional literature and ritual in India and Iran.
Fatimah al-Zahra, the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad, wife of the first Shi‘i Imam ‘Ali, and mother to two sons, Hasan and Husayn, is revered as one of the most holy of Muslim women – sinless, spiritually perfected, and most commonly portrayed by her scholarly interpreters as the lady of sorrows and unstinting patience.
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