Muhammad al-Bāz reports on a M.A thesis by Ahmad Lāshīn, assistant professor at the
Faculty of Arts at ‘Ayn Shams University. The thesis was published in a book entitled ‘Karbalā’
bayn al-Ustūrah wa al-Tārīkh’ [Karbala between the Legend and History; a study in the Iranian Public
consciousness].
In his thesis Lāshīn presents many traditional stories that circulate in
Shī‘ah culture about anticipations concerning al-Husayn’s killing in Karbala. One of these
was a story about Jesus Christ who was allegedly once walking with his disciples in Karabla and met a lion who
did not allow them to pass without naming the killers of al-Husayn; mainly Yazīd. [Reviewer: al-Husayn is the
son of ‘Alī Ibn Abī Tālib, Prophet Muhammad’s cousin. It is said that al-
Husayn enjoyed special preferential treatment from the prophet.]
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