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The Revolution of Imam Hussein

Chapter Five

How did Muslim scholars

and non-Muslims view the

Revolution of Imam Hussein

(as)?

Zeinab bint Ali, the heroic sister of Imam Hussein (as),
played a key role on the stage of political events of the
Islamic State. Her name was connected with Islamic and

humane history in the tragedy of the battle of Karbala,
which historians unanimously agreed was one of the
most decisive and important battles in Islamic history.
Certainly, no-one ignored the roles she played in this
tragedy, and some of them had called her “The heroine
of karbala” because she was the first lady to appear in
this serious event, treating the wounded, comforting the
orphans, and enraged that the corpses of the martyrs
were abandoned on the sands of Karbala under the

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