there were some great scientists like austin and searle in the growth stage of pragmatics, especially searle who has offered an executive procedure was completed by some discourse analysis elements, and it has completed the speech acts theory of austin. this survey considers the sermon of jihad in nahj ul-baläghah book by using its speech acts. by considering five speech acts, their direct and...

nahj-ol balaghah is of many values in several aspects. the objective of this paper is to introduce the literary arts involved in this sacred book written the master of eloquence and declamation, the commander of the faithful, imam ali ibn-abi talib (may god honor him) the present paper intends to clarify one of the literary elements cast in most of the sermons and orations in n ahj-ol balaghah ...

imam ali’s newly established government faced anuproarcaused by a group named nakesin during its early ages when its foundations were still being strengthened. this group pledged allegiance to imam ali freely, but then they left medina with the excuse of going for omrehpilgrimage, yet indeed they had the intention to conspire against imam by forming a new front and challenging his government. i...

background and objectives: a major problem in public health has been the prevalence of chronic diseases. most of these diseases are due to lifestyle changes, especially in the field of nutrition. the iranian islamic teachings have extensive guidelines on the issue of healthy lifestyle and nutrition in particular. on that account, there are many sayings and traditions related to nutrition and it...

stylistics as a new method of text analysis explores the overall structure of texts. an author’s use of repetition as well as other linguistic and literary elements is among the most prominent stylistic features intended to create an effective expression. since the nahj al-balaghah is one of the most important religious books, and has a great literary value, it has always attracted the attentio...

one reading (qara'at) of asr sura, , which is inconsistent with other valid readings, has been attributed to ali (p.b.u.h). because this reading contains additions to the asr sura, its acceptation is not possible. a survey of two chains of traditions about this reading of the asr sura attributed to ali (p.b.u.h) shows that these traditions are of isolated type (khabar vahed). it also shows...

Received August 11, 2016. Accepted August 17, 2016. Correspondence to: Mozhgan Saeidi Cardiac Rehabilitation Center, Imam Ali Hospital, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti Boulevard, Kermanshah, Iran Tel: +988338380698, Fax: +988338360043, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commer...

the selection of efficient and creative personnels contributes to a justifiable and acceptable potentiality of organizations, for efficiency of an organization is connected with the speciality and the commitment of its active personnels. since efficiency is more than merely increasing profit and production, some other value, moral, legal categories are of significance in selecting personnels. g...

Objective: Test the effects of stereotypic video game portrayals with and without violence on attitudes toward the stereotyped group. Method: Two experiments tested the effects of stereotypic video game portrayals of Arabs in a violent and nonviolent context on implicit and explicit attitudes and perceptions of Arabs. Results: In both experiments, participants who played an antiterrorist game d...