Shaheed-e-Kufa

Imam Ali the Series
VCD Cover Imam Ali the Series
Genre	History
Written by	Davood Mirbagheri
Directed by	Davood Mirbagheri
Starring	Dariush Arjmand Vishka Asayesh Parviz Parastui Farhad Aslani Mehdi Fat'hi Behzad Farahani Mohammad-Reza Sharifinia Sirous Gorjestani Asghar Hemmat Karim Akbari Mobarakeh
Music by	Farhad Fakhreddini
Country of origin	Iran
Original language(s)	Persian, Urdu
No. of episodes	22
Production
Producer(s)	Mohammed Beygzadeh
Cinematography	Maziar Partow
Running time	50 minutes (approximately)
Distributor	IRIB
Release
Original network	Soroush TV
Original release	1992-1998

Shaheed-e-Kufa or The Martyr of Kufa or Imam Ali Series (Persian: سریال امام علی‎‎; Urdu: سیریل امام علی‎) was an epic Iranian television series, in Persian, concerning the life of Ali ibn Abi Talib, directed by Davood Mirbagheri,^[1][2] and originally broadcast in 1992 in 22 episodes. It was subsequently released on DVD, with other editions including one with English sub-titles, and one dubbed into Urdu. The series covers the events before the caliphate of Ali ibn Abi Talib to his assassination in Kufa, Iraq.

Cast

• Dariush Arjmand as Malik al-Ashtar
• Vishka Asayesh as Quttam
• Mohammad-Reza Sharifinia as Waleed ibn Uqba
• Mehdi Fat'hi as 'Amr ibn al-'As and Ali ibn Abi Talib (without showing of face)
• Jamshid Mashayekhi as Abdullah ibn Mas'ud
• Parviz Parastui as Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr
• Jahangir Forouhar as Abu Sufyan ibn Harb
• Behzad Farahani as Muawiyah I
• Farhad Aslani as Yazid I
• Davoud Rashidi as Hakim ibn Jablah
• Hossein Panahi as Son of Khabbab
• Nematollah Gorji as an old man
• Azita Hajian as a Roman Slave girl
• Akbar Abdi as Romi
• Ahmad Ghadakchian as Businessman
• Anoushirvan Arjmand as Asha's ibn Qays
• Abbas Amiri as Abu Musa Ashaari
• Sirous Gorjestani as Aba Quttam
• Saeed Nikpour as Ammar ibn Yasir
• Enayat Bakhshi as Abdullah ibn Wahab al-Rasbi
• Asghar Hemmat as Marwan I
• Parvaneh Masoumi as Hagar
• Bagher Sahraroodi as Ka'ab al-Ahbar
• Karim Akbari Mobarakeh as Abd-al-Rahman ibn Muljam
• Mansour Vala Magham as Zubayr ibn al-Awam
• Javad Khodadadi as Abu Dhar al-Ghifari
• Shohreh Lorestani as Maryam Bint Osman
• Siavash Shakeri as Abu Zeyd
• Manochehr Larijani as Talhah
• Fakhri Khorvash as Nannies walid
• Ali Azad as Abd Allah ibn Abbas
• Farideh Sepah Mansour as Om zar
• Touran Mehrzad as Asma
• Morteza Zarrabi as Jewish sorcerer
• Hossein Khanibeik as Dinar
• Aziz Honar Amooz as Aqeel ibn Abi Talib
• Soroush Khalili as Courier
• Atash Taghipour as Saadoun
• Reza Khandan as Adi ibn Hatim
• Fakhreddin Seddigh Sharif as Ben addis
• Akbar Sangi as Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr
• Sarvar Nejat Allahi as Walid wife
• Rahman Baghrian Uthman ibn Hunaif
• Ali Asghar Garmsiri as Rags
• Ali Zandi as Sa`d ibn Abi Waqqas
• Nader Rajabpour as Ibn amer
• Changiz Vossoughi as Werdan bin Mojaled
• Enayatollah Shafei as Jondab-e-asadi

Music

The music for the series was composed by Farhad Fakhreddini and involved a choir and the singer Sediq Tarif. Consisting of 17 tracks, the music was subsequently released on the Soroush label.

Track listing

Footnotes

References

• Article about the making of Shaheed-e-Kufa
• Shaheed-e-Kufa at the Internet Archive
• Serial Imam Ali Official Shop