based on the theory of intertextuality, literary texts are in natural interaction with other texts before their time. the present study is an attempt to explain the relation between quran - as a religious literary text - with pre-islamic poetry. however the holy quran has a divine origin, but its language is a humane language and understandable to all people. thus, we see the vocabulary and str...

aggregation of ash'ari theology and pre-islamic practical wisdom of iranians is one of the characteristics of historiography during seljuq period. indeed, the iranshahri’s political thought had been revived and regarded as a practical model for seljuq sultans in siyar al-muluk (statesmanship manners of kings) and historical texts. the beginning of the nezam al-mulk’s ministry was also the ...

there is probably no need for extensive exploration to believe that movable type invention had a tremendous and historical impact on expansion of science and emergence of renaissance in europe, as tens of articles and research books have already been dedicated to this fact; but the real question which requires historical explanation is how the man before invention of printing had preserved his ...

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