Angels Hastening - Clohessy, Christopher

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Résumé :
When, on an autumn Medina night in 61/680, the night that saw al-?usayn killed, Umm Salama was torn from her sleep by an apparition of a long-dead M?ammad, she slipped effortlessly into a progression of her co-religionists who, irrespective of status, gender or standing with God, were the recipients of dark and arresting visions. At the core of those Delphian dreams, peopled by angels or ?inn or esteemed forbears and textured with Iraqi dust and martyrs' blood, was the Karbal?? event. Her dream would be recounted by an array of Muslim scholars, from al-Tirmi??, stellar pupil of al-B??r?, and Ibn ?As?kir, untiring chronicler of Syrian history, to bibliophile theologian Ibn ????s and Egyptian polymath al-Suy???. But this was not Umm Salama's only otherworldly encounter and she was not the only one to have al-?usayn's fate disturb her nights. This is their story.

Biographie:
Professor Christopher Clohessy is a South African Catholic priest who received a Bachelor of Sacred Theology from the Pontifical Urbanianum University in Rome and a MA and PhD from the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI), also in Rome. He is author of several articles in academic journals, as well as of four books: Fatima, Daughter of Muhammad (2009, 2018 2ND edition), and Half of My Heart: The Narratives of Zaynab bt. 'AIT (2018) and Angels Hastening. The Karbala' Dreams (2021), and The Outrider. Abo al -Fadl 'Abbas (2024), all published by Gorgias Press. In 2021 he was one of the recipients of the Iranian World Book Award, with the nomination 'Distinguished Researcher'....

Sommaire:
When, on an autumn Medina night in 61/680, the night that saw al-?usayn killed, Umm Salama was torn from her sleep by an apparition of a long-dead M?ammad, she slipped effortlessly into a progression of her co-religionists who, irrespective of status, gender or standing with God, were the recipients of dark and arresting visions. At the core of those Delphian dreams, peopled by angels or ?inn or esteemed forbears and textured with Iraqi dust and martyrs' blood, was the Karbal?? event. Her dream would be recounted by an array of Muslim scholars, from al-Tirmi??, stellar pupil of al-B??r?, and Ibn ?As?kir, untiring chronicler of Syrian history, to bibliophile theologian Ibn ????s and Egyptian polymath al-Suy???. But this was not Umm Salama's only otherworldly encounter and she was not the only one to have al-?usayn's fate disturb her nights. This is their story....