 Edward G. Brown, the Professor of Arabic and Oriental Studies at the University of Cambridge, praises Imam Hussein in these words. A reminder of the bloodstained field of Kabbalah where the grandson of the Apostle of God fell at length, tortured by thirst and surrounded by the bodies of his murdered coinsmen, has been at any time since the sufficient to evoke, even the most lukewarm and heedless, the deepest emotion, the most frantic grief and an exaltation of spirit before which pain, danger and death shrink to the unconsidered truffles.