Umm al-Awajiz (Aqila Bani Hashim)

Author's name: Dr. Muhammad Al-Damardash Al-Aqqali

Umm al-Awajiz, Aqilat Bani Hashim: The biography of Lady Zaynab bint Ali ibn Abi Talib, sister of Imam al-Husayn, who witnessed Karbala with him and was the support and defender of the family of the Prophet ﷺ in the darkest moments.

We live with the lines of this novel, adapted from the biography of the mother of the elderly, as the Egyptians like to call her, an epic history that tells the story of the steadfastness of this divine lady who witnessed the calamities and misfortunes that befell the family of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and witnessed in her life the passing of her grandfather, the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, to the side of the highest companion, and witnessed the death of her mother, Al-Zahra, and the martyrdom of her father, Ali bin Abi Talib, and the peak of the calamities and the heaviest of them was what she experienced in the massacre of Karbala, in which she had a heroic role alongside her martyred brother.

In the lines of this novel, we trace the bloody and bitter events until the daughter of the Banu Hashim was laid to rest in the soil of Egypt, and we anticipate what the family of the Prophet went through after her in terms of sorrows and calamities on the path of the transformation of the caliphate into a hereditary monarchy, and the transformation of the pulpit into a throne.