this paper examines the quranic stories in a narratological approach.first the problem of the research is explained and the hypothesis is raised that there is no relationship between the quranic stories and narratology.the paper then reviews the literary on the litrary approaches to the quran and the holy book.then the genealogy of the words related to quranic stories is given.in the next part,...

Theory of mind (ToM), the ability to reason about other people's thoughts and beliefs, has been traditionally studied in behavioral and neuroimaging experiments by comparing performance in "false belief" and "false photograph" (control) stories. However, some evidence suggests that these stories are not matched in difficulty, complicating the interpretation of results. Here, we more fully evalu...

compared to other persian didactic literary works like the works of sanaei and attar, stories in the mathnavi have a unique position. a great number of the stories of the mathnavi were not created by mo'lavi himself; they have been presented in previous sources, including attar's manteggotteyr (conference of birds). relation between the manteghotteyr and the stories of mathnavi is over-textual,...

This article identifies and analyses the dominant stories that academics tell about the development of Western second wave feminist theory. Through an examination of recent production of interdisciplinary feminist and cultural theory journals, I suggest that despite a rhetorical insistence on multiple feminisms, Western feminist trajectories emerge as startlingly singular. In particular, I am c...

As obesity prevention initiatives increasingly shift toward approaches focused on policy, systems, and environmental change, opportunities to share experiences from the field and lessons learned are growing. Stories are a tool to illustrate processes and outcomes of initiatives that can complement quantitative results. The use of stories, however, is not widely recognized, and the methods and t...