Abstract/Sommario: Fatima has not received an especially favourable treatment, either from Western Orientalists or even from some of the Sunnî writers. As best, she is presented as a rather vague and shadowy creature, perpetually bemoaning her lot, ever in tears over every little thing. While she certainly has a standing among the Sunnî transmitters of the Islamic Traditions - a number of them devote whole chapters to her merits and virtues- she remains nevertheless a neglected figure. Not so among the ...; [Leggi tutto...]
Fatima has not received an especially favourable treatment, either from Western Orientalists or even from some of the Sunnî writers. As best, she is presented as a rather vague and shadowy creature, perpetually bemoaning her lot, ever in tears over every little thing. While she certainly has a standing among the Sunnî transmitters of the Islamic Traditions - a number of them devote whole chapters to her merits and virtues- she remains nevertheless a neglected figure. Not so among the Shî'a scholars, for whom Fatima remains a person of considerable importance, and around whose life a rich and complex theology and spirituality has been constructed. The Shî'a texts abound with references to Fatima: she is a Virgin, and the Mother of Al Husayn, whose martyrdom at Karbala would come to be understood as the decisive moment for the Shî'a Islam. She is poor, neglected and ill-treated on earth, despite the miracles and Divine intervention that surround her conception and birth of her son al-Husayn. She is the 'Mother of sorrows', filled with grief over the loss of her father, over the injustices she perceived in the period after his death and in the future murder of her son. But on the day of Judgement she will be the first to enter Paradise, clothed in splendour, All the inhabitants of that place will bow before her and there, before God's throne, Fatima will make intercession, against those who murdered her son, and in favour of her progeny and all who love her