Allame Shahid Motahhari's Fight against Interpolation in Islamic Sources and its Impact on Islamic Revolution

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Member of Scientific Board, University of Tehran

Abstract

Allame Shahid Mortaza Motahhari is among few scholars who paid special attention to study and reject interpolations in Ashura. His special attention to these issues combined with a contrastive study casts a serious doubt on narrations that spoils the message of Ashura and questions the originality of Imam Hussein's ('a) great reformist movement. Therefore the current article tries to find the answer to this question: what are the primary distinctive features of Shahid Motahhari's viewpoints in his fight against interpolations in the historical accounts of Ashura.

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