Ma`rifat

Abstract The purpose of this research is to study the educational aspects of an epic and analyze these aspects in the educational school and conduct of Martyr Soleimani. Examining, explaining and analyzing the last will of Martyr Soleimani, the statements of the Supreme Leader of the Iran, and the words of his prominent comrades in arm, we have tried to answer this main question, using an interpretive-analytical method: to what extent the biography of Qasem Soleimani fits and describes the criteria of epic education? Epic education had, and still has, an important position in the cultural-religious values of the Islamic-Iranian school and worldview, in its different dimensions and levels. Some influential and charismatic people, such as Qasem Soleimani, have played an important role in reproducing this issue in the society at different periods of time. The findings of this research can be divided into two parts; in the first part, we have discovered and analyzed the dimensions of epic education and its sub-themes (being loyal to the guardianship, zeal, courage, bravery and chivalry, jihad, sacrifice and selflessness, benevolence and altruism, justice and anti-tyranny, etc.) by studying national epic works and the teachings of Shiism. In the second part, we implemented these cases relying on the school, conduct, actions and behavior of Qasem Soleimani. We should say that Qasem Soleimani has been a prominent example in the realization of epic education in Iran, in the social-educational context and structure of the society, after the revolution of Iran. A concrete example is the widespread participation of people in his funeral procession and burial in different regions of the country, and in the form of making this school as a culture for the new generations after his martyrdom.