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There are three reports about her resting place: | There are three reports about her resting place: | ||
Al-Baqi' cemetery: Some historians have reported that she was buried in al-Baqi', Medina. Al-Sayyid Muhsin al-Amin, the author of A'yan al-Shi'a, accepted this report and mentioned some evidence refuting the other two reports. | * Al-Baqi' cemetery: Some historians have reported that she was buried in al-Baqi', Medina. Al-Sayyid Muhsin al-Amin, the author of A'yan al-Shi'a, accepted this report and mentioned some evidence refuting the other two reports. | ||
Zaynabiyya: It is widely believed that she was buried in Zaynabiyya, a southern suburb of Damascus, Syria, where nowadays her shrine is. | * Zaynabiyya: It is widely believed that she was buried in Zaynabiyya, a southern suburb of Damascus, Syria, where nowadays her shrine is. | ||
* Maqam of Lady Zaynab: Some historians said that she was buried in Egypt. Her shrine in Egypt has been renovated several times and now is a ziara site. | |||
==Historical Impact== | ==Historical Impact== | ||
While Sunni and Shi῾i sources concur about the centrality of Zaynab's role during and immediately after the Battle of Karbala, she figures far more prominently in Shi῾i historiography than in the Sunni sources. As such her life story is central to the hagiography on the family of ῾Ali as well as in the definition of contemporary gender roles in Shi῾i societies. A number of modern biographers, for example, provide extensive details about her life from birth to death and cast her as an exemplar for modern Shi῾i women in the domestic and political spheres. In many respects she is the Shi῾i counterpart to the Sunni ῾A᾽isha bint Abi Bakr, providing a model of political activism, remaining steadfast and brave in the face of tyranny and oppression, and living virtuously as a daughter, wife, and mother. | While Sunni and Shi῾i sources concur about the centrality of Zaynab's role during and immediately after the Battle of Karbala, she figures far more prominently in Shi῾i historiography than in the Sunni sources. As such her life story is central to the hagiography on the family of ῾Ali as well as in the definition of contemporary gender roles in Shi῾i societies. A number of modern biographers, for example, provide extensive details about her life from birth to death and cast her as an exemplar for modern Shi῾i women in the domestic and political spheres. In many respects she is the Shi῾i counterpart to the Sunni ῾A᾽isha bint Abi Bakr, providing a model of political activism, remaining steadfast and brave in the face of tyranny and oppression, and living virtuously as a daughter, wife, and mother. | ||
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==Bibliography== | ==Bibliography== | ||
* Balāghatun Nisa', Abul Fazl Ahmad bin Abi Tahir, (208- 280 A.H.). | |||
* Ibn Sa῾d, Mohammed. The Women of Medina. Translated by Aisha Bewley. Vol. 8 of Tabaqat, p. 300. London: Ta-Ha | *Balāghatun Nisa', Abul Fazl Ahmad bin Abi Tahir, (208- 280 A.H.). | ||
* Publishers, 1995. Contains a brief, early biographical entry for Zaynab bint ῾Ali. | *Ibn Sa῾d, Mohammed. The Women of Medina. Translated by Aisha Bewley. Vol. 8 of Tabaqat, p. 300. London: Ta-Ha | ||
* Mufid, Mohammed al-. The Book of Guidance into the Lives of the Twelve Imams. Translated by I. K. A. Howard from Kitab al-Irshad. Horsham, U.K.: Balagha, and Elmhurst, N.Y.: Tahrike Tarsile Qur᾽an, 1981. Brief accounts of Zaynab's heroism and rhetoric are preserved in the account of al-Husayn's life. | *Publishers, 1995. Contains a brief, early biographical entry for Zaynab bint ῾Ali. | ||
* Tabari, Mohammed ibn Jarir al-. The Caliphate of Yazid b. Mu῾awiyah. Translated by I. K. A. Howard. Vol. 19 of History of al-Tabari. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990. | *Mufid, Mohammed al-. The Book of Guidance into the Lives of the Twelve Imams. Translated by I. K. A. Howard from Kitab al-Irshad. Horsham, U.K.: Balagha, and Elmhurst, N.Y.: Tahrike Tarsile Qur᾽an, 1981. Brief accounts of Zaynab's heroism and rhetoric are preserved in the account of al-Husayn's life. | ||
*Tabari, Mohammed ibn Jarir al-. The Caliphate of Yazid b. Mu῾awiyah. Translated by I. K. A. Howard. Vol. 19 of History of al-Tabari. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990. | |||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
* [https://www.al-islam.org/probe-history-ashura-dr-ibrahim-ayati/chapter-32-sermon-lady-zaynab-court-yazid Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library] | |||
* [https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195148909.001.0001/acref-9780195148909-e-1187 The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History] | *[https://www.al-islam.org/probe-history-ashura-dr-ibrahim-ayati/chapter-32-sermon-lady-zaynab-court-yazid Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library] | ||
*[https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195148909.001.0001/acref-9780195148909-e-1187 The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History] | |||
[[Category:Individuals]] | [[Category:Individuals]] | ||
[[Category:Historical Characters]] | [[Category:Historical Characters]] | ||
[[Category: Battle of Karbala]] | [[Category: Battle of Karbala]] | ||
[[Category:Hussain’s Followers]] | [[Category:Hussain’s Followers]] | ||