Active resilience components based on Ashura speeches by lady Zainab bint Ali: A qualitative content analysis

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1 Associate Professor at Department of Islamic Maaref, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran

2 Masters in Islamic Positive Psychology, University of Quran and Hadith, Qom, Iran

3 Master is Clinical Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

Abstract

This study, using a qualitative content analysis and with inductive method, aimed to extract the component of resilience from the speeches of lady Zeinab bint Ali after the Ashura event. All speeches of lady Zeinab bint Ali in the city of Kufa, in the court of ibn Ziad, and the court of Yazid were studied. Results showed that the lady Zeinab’ discourse include components such as spiritual support, spiritual identity, correction of cognitive errors, deliberate meaning-making grief, and active coping with the facts. The results showed that the lady Zeinab’s discourse, as a unique model of resilience in an Islamic-Shiite context, could be an inspirational source for useful coping with social crises in the modern world. This model, by compiling epistemic, ethical, and spiritual components, not only help people to reconstruct their self from within, but also help people to revive the communal identity. This model also has very high capacity to reproduce monothetic values such as resistance, esteem, and hope and could introduce new strategies for resistance and resilience in hard times.

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Journal of Islamic Psychology
Volume 11, Issue 22
October 2025
Pages 43-59

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