purpose: the purpose of this paper is to analyze and identify the different types of bibliographic relationships and vocabularies represented in persian literary families. this could help cataloguers and catalogue designers to do more meaningful information organization. methodology: research population included the bibliographic records of four literary families: shahnameh, masnavi, hafez's di...

asadi’s shahnameh is a great epic consisting of twenty-four thousand distiches and is attributed to asadi or another poet of the same nickname. this work was created in the same line of development as ferdowsi’s shahnameh. the main theme is the old campaign of soleymān to iran to confront with rostam and keykhosrow and to repeat the pattern of rostam’s battles with his children in a state of an...

this study seeks to describe and discuss a hemistich, namely ‘‘yours the earth, mine the vulture’s feather’’, of the story of rostam and sohrab in ferdowsi's shahnameh. many commentators and interpreters of the shahnameh have different opinions on the concept and meaning of this hemistich. this has led the researchers to seek the reason of such differences, clues for the provided meanings,...

kortnameh is an epic composed in masnavi format. modeled on ferdowsi’s shahnameh, the work was composed by rabiee pushangi (671-702a.h.) at the behest of fakhruddin-e kort (697-706 a.h.) about the history of kort dynasty. the work has disappeared and little is known about it. tarikhname-ye herat (721 a.h.) is the only source that has preserved a little more than 250 verses of kortnameh, providi...

literary adaptation is recasting literary books such as novels, short stories, or even poems in a new form such as films, stage plays, or even video games. persian literature abounds with dramatic events. there are many fascinating narratives such as shahnameh of ferdowsi, khmseh of nezami, mathnavi of rumi, and tarikh-e beyhaghi of beyhaghi, which have the dramatic capacity of literary adaptat...

in the mythology of nations, there has been a myth known as “the numen of poetry and art” and different cultures have samples for that. this numen has been the connecting point between human being and god (or divinities) that inspires poetry to the poet in an unconscious manner. the writer of this article has studied shahnameh and pahlavi literature to search for this myth in the culture of anc...

the form of dragon has been appeared during the history of iran art in different formats whit mysterious contents. in fact, it is the only mythical character that is in collection with the rest ancient earthly animals. dragon with its scaly serpent, like body, is also one of the twelve zodiac signs in the world. in most of the old pictures, figures or written texts, they are explained with a bo...

undoubtedly, macedonian alexander is one of the history makers and effective miens in the history and civilization of human being. it is surprising that independent works on alexander in persian literature are much more than any other historical or mythical figure. in addition to many historical texts which are talking about alexander,s life and personality in detail, eight works have been writ...