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Arabic language proficiency, and access to the Qajar royal library, provided a great opportunity for Sepehr to write various volumes of Nasikh al-Tawarikh, including the one on Imam Hussain and Ashura events.<ref>Heidari, p. 141 and Ahmadi, p. 28</ref>
Arabic language proficiency, and access to the Qajar royal library, provided a great opportunity for Sepehr to write various volumes of Nasikh al-Tawarikh, including the one on Imam Hussain and Ashura events.<ref>Heidari, p. 141 and Ahmadi, p. 28</ref>


Lesan al-Molk in the mentioned book does not mention its narrators when narrating the events.<ref>Basiri, pp. 50-51</ref> In addition, some of Sepehr's judgments and opinions about the events of [[Ashura]], including the dispersal of Imam Hussain's companions a night before the Ashura, have been criticized by other authors such as Salehi Najafabadi and Mortaza Motahhari.<ref>Esfandiari, pp. 88-89</ref> The approach of Lesan al-Molk in Nasikh al-Tawarikh about the events of Ashura and [[Karbala]] has also been placed by some scholars under the emotional approaches of historians and [[Maqtal]]-writers of the Qajar era.<ref>Ruh Allahi Amiri, pp. 330-331</ref>
Lesan al-Molk in the mentioned book does not mention its narrators when narrating the events.<ref>Basiri, pp. 50-51</ref> In addition, some of Sepehr's judgments and opinions about the events of [[Ashura]], including the dispersal of Imam Hussain's companions a night before the Ashura, have been criticized by other authors such as Salehi Najafabadi and [[Mortaza Motahhari]].<ref>Esfandiari, pp. 88-89</ref> The approach of Lesan al-Molk in Nasikh al-Tawarikh about the events of Ashura and [[Karbala]] has also been placed by some scholars under the emotional approaches of historians and [[Maqtal]]-writers of the Qajar era.<ref>Ruh Allahi Amiri, pp. 330-331</ref>


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