- Source: Shaheed-e Kufa
The Martyr of Kufa (Persian: شهید کوفه, romanized: Shaheed-e Kufa) original title Imam Ali (امام علی) is an Iranian epic television series focusing on the life of Ali ibn Abi Talib, directed by Davood Mirbagheri, and originally broadcast in 1992 in 22 episodes. It was subsequently released on DVD, with other editions including one with English sub-titles, and one dubbed into Urdu. The series covers the events before the caliphate of Ali ibn Abi Talib to his assassination in Kufa, Iraq. The telefilm version of this series has also been made and broadcast.
Story
The story of this series starts from the end of the caliphate of Uthman ibn Affan and covers the last five years and the period of the caliphate and the life and martyrdom of Ali ibn Abi Talib.This series also shows the events of the caliphate of Ali bin Abi Talib. Its events include the Battle of Jamel, the Battle of Safin and the Battle of Nahrvan. This collection also includes other events such as the Qur'an on a spear in the Battle of Safin, the suppression of oath-breakers in the Battle of Jamal, the dispute between Ali Ibn Abi Talib and Abu Musa Ash'ari and the emergence of the Khawarij, the suppression of the Khawarij in the Battle of Nahrwan and the death of Malik Ashtar and Ammar Ibn Yasir also shows.
Cast
Dariush Arjmand as Malik al-Ashtar
Vishka Asayesh as Quttam
Mohammad-Reza Sharifinia as Waleed ibn Uqba
Mehdi Fat'hi as 'Amr ibn al-'As
Jamshid Mashayekhi as Abdullah ibn Mas'ud
Parviz Parastui as Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr
Jahangir Forouhar as Abu Sufyan ibn Harb
Behzad Farahani as Muawiyah I
Farhad Aslani as Yazid I
Davoud Rashidi as Hakim ibn Jablah
Hossein Panahi as Son of Khabbab
Nematollah Gorji as an old man
Azita Hajian as a Roman Slave girl
Akbar Abdi as Romi
Ahmad Ghadakchian as Businessman
Anoushirvan Arjmand as Asha's ibn Qays
Abbas Amiri Moghaddam as Abu Musa Ashaari
Sirous Gorjestani as Aba Quttam
Saeed Nikpour as Ammar ibn Yasir
Enayat Bakhshi as Abdullah ibn Wahab al-Rasbi
Asghar Hemmat as Marwan I
Parvaneh Masoumi as Hagar
Bagher Sahraroodi as Ka'ab al-Ahbar
Karim Akbari Mobarakeh as Abd-al-Rahman ibn Muljam
Mansour Vala Magham as Zubayr ibn al-Awwam
Javad Khodadadi as Abu Dhar al-Ghifari
Shohreh Lorestani as Maryam Bint Osman
Siavash Shakeri as Abu Zeyd
Manochehr Larijani as Talhah
Fakhri Khorvash as Nannies Walid
Ali Azad as Abd Allah ibn Abbas
Farideh Sepah Mansour as Om zar
Touran Mehrzad as Asma
Morteza Zarrabi as Jewish sorcerer
Hossein Khanibeik as Dinar
Aziz Honar Amooz as Aqeel ibn Abi Talib
Soroush Khalili as Courier
Atash Taghipour as Saadoun
Reza Khandan as Adi ibn Hatim
Fakhreddin Seddigh Sharif as Ben addis
Akbar Sangi as Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr
Sarvar Nejat Allahi as Walid wife
Rahman Baghrian Uthman ibn Hunaif
Ali Asghar Garmsiri as Rags
Ali Zandi as Sa`d ibn Abi Waqqas
Nader Rajabpour as Ibn amer
Changiz Vossoughi as Werdan bin Mojaled
Enayatollah Shafei as Jondab-e-asadi
Faghiheh Soltani
Music
The music for the series was composed by Farhad Fakhreddini and involved a choir and the singer Sediq Tarif. Consisting of 17 tracks, the music was subsequently released on the Soroush label.
= Track listing
=Footnotes
See also
Loneliest Leader
List of Islamic films
References
Article about the making of Shaheed-e-Kufa [1]
Shaheed-e-Kufa at the Internet Archive [2]
External links
Shaheed-e Kufa at IMDb
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Shaheed-e Kufa
- Davood Mir-Bagheri
- Atash Taqipour
- Anoushirvan Arjmand
- Maziar Lorestani
- Abdollah Eskandari
- Jahangir Forouhar
- Deaths in October 2020
- Husayn ibn Ali
- Zayd ibn Ali