The literary and social personality of Sukayna Bint el_ Hossain (Pbuh)

The study of Islamic history and Arabic literature makes us acquaited with different short and long news about the cultural, political and social personality of Sukayna Bint el_Hossain (Pbuh), a great and educated lady of the household of the holy prophet (Pbuh). She is one of the few ladies whose scientific and cultural personality had been mentioned in many literal-historical books in an exact manner. The analysts of historical issues in cultural, political and social domains, in accordance with their own viewpoints, have had a particular outlook to the reported news about Sukayna Bint el_ Hossain (Pbuh).
In this paper we investigated these reports and found out that she has been a chaste, intelligent, literate woman, being aware of the political and social problems of her time. Perceiving and choosing appropriate situations, she has followed a special way for uttering her position and defending her family and commemoration of the name and fame of the household of the Prophet (Pbuh) in that difficult stage of Shiite history.