The History of Du'a and Ziyarah
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.
