Analyzing Imam Hussein’s letter to Mohammad Hanafieh based on Fairclough’s approach

In fact, Imam Hussein’s letter to Mohammad Hanafieh delivered in 61 AH is Imam’s testament. It contains consequences that the writers have analyzed it from Fairclough approach: critical discourse analysis. Taking into consideration the historical atmosphere of that era from one hand and the dominant discourse of that time in the vast seemingly Islamic territory on the other hand, Imam’s revolutionary discourse emerged. Due to its consistent to human nature and universality of its message, the roots of aggression were fully eradicated. The importance of this analysis is behind the point that the goal of the Ashura reform has been clarified. To do so, it is attempted to investigate some aspects of Hussainei movement and to answer to following question: what is the motivation of Husseini uprising and why has this movement sustained up to now and furthermore, what outcomings have been conveyed in the human-Islamic community?

Keywords:

Ashura , critical discourse analysis , the uprising motivation , universality , ideology