The Historical Course of Shiite Poem in Ashura Saga Husayn b. Ali in the Mirror of Poetry

At first this article answers to the question why the oldest Persian elegy in the 4th century A.H. allocated to Imam Husayn (peace be upon him), and spoke of the factors that caused any works from the time of the Master of the Martyrs (peace be upon him) not to be available for us; then it examines the Shia difficulties and the emergence of proper fields and political developments of the Shiites in this century. It results that the oldest Persian elegy for the martyrdom of Husayn b. 'Ali (p.b.u.h) was that of Kasai Marwazi (4th century A.H).At the second part, it mentions the poems of the poets from the beginning until now so that the first Husayni poets were Kasai Marwazi (4th century A.H), Naser Khusraw, Kawami, Anwari, Zahir, as well as more than 72 poets to the end of 13th century that composed some poems at the threnody of Abi Abd il-llah (p.b.u.h.) and the effects of 'Ashura culture on their poems are well apparent.Growth, richness and florescence of Persian literature, at least in threnody part, are in debt of 'Ashura culture and this is sensible and apparent in the poems.