“An Investigation into the Approach of Farsi-speaking Wahhabi Satellite Networks about Ahl al-Bayt”

Author:
Mohammad Ali Abdossamad
Level:
Master
Subject(s):
Shia Studies
Language:
Farsi
Faculty:
Faculty of Shi’i Studies
Year:
2019
Publisher:
URD Press
Supervisor(s):
Mahdi Farmanian
Advisor(s):
Mohsen Moravveji

The present research studies the approach of Persian-Wahhabi satellite networks to Ahl al-Bayt. Since numerous Persian-language networks have been launched in recent years, a significant proportion of them have been destructive in order to influence culture. In this regard, in order to understand and better understand the approaches of Persian-language Wahhabi networks, four networks called “kalameh”, “Wesal-Hagh”, “Tohid” and “Shabakeye Noor”, which have a large part of their programs discussing Ahl al-Bayt. Therefore, with emphasis on the library’s first-hand resources, in descriptive-analytical manner, the question has been raised: what kind of approach has been adopted by the Wahhabian networks about Ahl al-Bayt. We assume that the approach of these networks is sometimes insulting and allegorical charges and unjustifiable allegations to the Ahl al-Bayt, and sometimes also the affidavits that express admiration for the virtues and pretense of the affection of the Ahl al-Bayt. Therefore, the research confirms the hypothesis that these satellite networks, on the one hand, intend to promote and propagate contradictory paradoxical thoughts towards the people of Bithara. And on the other hand, by addressing the doubts, the intention is to divert the minds of the audience from their beliefs and introduce a new face of the Ahl al-Bayt.