Chivalry and mysticism are both among the valuable notions cherished in Islam. These have always been kept away so as not to complement each other. Since the knowledge which is not accompanied with chivalry cannot take us somewhere as the latter without knowledge and intellectual and spiritual enlightenment leads nowhere. This work is an effort to demonstrate the complementary nature of these two realities through studying two key figures in the history of Islam, i.e. Hazrati Abbas and Imam Khomeini. It also delves into the life stories of Immaculate Imams to discern the interactions of mysticism and chivalry as brilliantly exposed in Ashura.

Abdollah Javadi-Amoli is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja. He is a conservative Iranian politician and one of the prominent Islamic scholars of the Hawza in Qom. The official website for his scientific foundation, Isra, describes him as a well-known, outstanding thinker in various fields of Islamic sciences and a distinguished figure in exegesis, jurisprudence, philosophy and mysticism. It is further states that his ideas and views have been reinforcing the Islamic Republic of Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and that "his strategic and enlightening guidance" has been "extremely constructive" during the past three decades.