Shaheed-e Kufa

Shaheed-e Kufa
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 Enayat Bakhshi Sirous Gorjestani Asghar Hemmat Karim Akbari Mobarakeh
Music by	Farhad Fakhreddini
Country of origin	Iran
Original languages	Persian, Urdu
No. of episodes	22
Production
Producer	Mohammed Beygzadeh
Cinematography	Maziar Partow
Editor	Mehrzad Menoush
Running time	50 minutes (approximately)
Original release
Network	Soroush TV
Release	1992-1998

Shaheed-e-Kufa or The Martyr of Kufa or Imam Ali Series (Persian: سریال امام علی; Urdu: سیریل امام علی) is an Iranian epic television series focusing on the life of Ali ibn Abi Talib, directed by Davood Mirbagheri, 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

Untitled

No.	Title	Artist(s)	Length
1.	"Kole Sobh"	Farhad Fakhreddini	06:22
2.	"Malek Ashtar"	Farhad Fakhreddini	03:19
3.	"Raghs Khanjar"	Farhad Fakhreddini	05:28
4.	"Ghotam"	Farhad Fakhreddini	04:13
5.	"Kakhe Sabz"	Farhad Fakhreddini	04:40
6.	"Tanhaee"	Farhad Fakhreddini	10:07
7.	"Didar"	Farhad Fakhreddini	01:51
8.	"Homaye Rahmat"	Farhad Fakhreddini	03:14
9.	"Karevane Ayesheh"	Farhad Fakhreddini	03:08
10.	"Savaran 1"	Farhad Fakhreddini	03:19
11.	"Aroosie Abuzar"	Farhad Fakhreddini	03:07
12.	"Sepah-e Ali"	Farhad Fakhreddini	03:44
13.	"Sepah-e Moavieh"	Farhad Fakhreddini	01:51
14.	"Jange Saffein"	Farhad Fakhreddini	03:48
15.	"Savaran 2"	Farhad Fakhreddini	05:21
16.	"Sharbat-e Marg"	Farhad Fakhreddini	02:38
17.	"Shahadat"	Farhad Fakhreddini	01:44

References

• Article about the making of Shaheed-e-Kufa [1]
• Shaheed-e-Kufa at the Internet Archive [2]
• Serial Imam Ali Official Shop [3]