About this course
Where do the supplications we recite every week come from, and how do we know they reach back to the Imams? In four lessons, Shaykh Vinay Khetia traces the history of du'a and ziyarah from the Imams to Mafatih al-Jinan: the Sahifa Sajjadiyya and its manuscripts, the scholars who copied and taught these texts, and case studies of Du'a Kumayl and Du'a al-Iftitah. The course closes with a reading of the opening of Du'a Kumayl and an introduction to ziyarah in the Shi'i and Sunni traditions.
What you’ll explore
- The origins of du’a literature, including the Sahifa Sajjadiyya and its manuscripts
- How scholars transmitted Du’a Kumayl and other supplications from the Imams to Mafatih al-Jinan
- Du’a al-Iftitah and a reading of the opening of Du’a Kumayl
- The spirit of Du’a Kumayl and ziyarah in the Shi‘i and Sunni traditions
Curriculum
- 01Print-Ready Course Notes
- 02The Origins of Du'a Literature
- 03The Transmission of Du'a Kumayl
- 04Du'a al-Iftitah and the Opening of Du'a Kumayl
- 05The Spirit of Du'a Kumayl and the Tradition of Ziyarah