The present analysis of Ps 124 suggests that it relates the retreat to Israel a foreign group YHWH’s worshipers. Its Edomite identity emerges from its comparison with other Songs Ascents (especially Pss 120, 122 and 129) Adam appellation their land origin (v. 2). setting in complex antiphony provides further details concerning fleeing Edom, new commitment Israel, brothers’ angry reaction. These...

BACKGROUND The Oxford Knee Score (OKS) is a short patient-reported outcome instrument that measures pain and physical activity related to knee osteoarthritis. The purpose of this study is to evaluate, construct validity and consistent reliability of the Persian version of the OKS. METHODS The case series consisted of 80 patients who were clinically diagnosed with having knee osteoarthritis. A...

pessimism, a phenomenon of deep effect over the contemporary poetry, both arabic and persian, usually enjoys a widespread usage in the periods of social, political and economic disorders which, in turn, affect the poets’ views and change their visions toward the real. elias abu-shabaka and hushang ebtehaj are the poets of a modern disorderly era and environment. they both display a deep pessimi...

hakim sanai is among the few major poets and mystics and is one of the persian-language primers, whose works created modern developments of the persian poetry’s content. he was also, in the true sense of the word, “like a thunder that lightened and like a sun that shined,” brightening the road of such poets as attar and rumi. the significance of sanai’s position in literature and mysticism, as ...

social changes and considering people’s needs are seen as the most important issues in the changes of persian poetry in constitutional era. the writers of this article have considered the views of western and iranian critics to study the function of the addressee in the changes of persian poetry in constitutional era. the use of such a study is that the writers have found and analyzed many soci...

since the second century (lunar calendar) in arabic literary criticism, the question of whether poetry should stay clear of philosophy, science, and thought or the poet can enjoy using them, has come to the fore. naturally, before muslims get familiar with greek, indian, and persian-rooted knowledge, philosophy, culture, and civilization (which were under the influence of such translations) the...