Abstract The article discusses a little-known lost Persian tale, Story of Sharwin Dastabay , and traces references to it in Arabic, Persian, Byzantine sources. earliest the story come from mid- late eighth century, seems have remained well known Arabic literature until early twelfth possibly fourteenth while shows that at least some its elements circulated already mid-sixth century. also how ma...

abstract: narrate (rawayat) was a way to preservation and transmit of poetry. rawayat is an arabic word and means: carryng of water, and metaphorically means: convey the poetry and hadith. in persian literature famous poets sang their poetry or had one or more rawis, who preserved and sang their verses. these rawis had particulars. in this essay we extract these particulars from verses and indi...

Skew detection and correction (SDC) has a direct effect in efficiency and exactitude of documents’ segmentation and analysis and thus is considered as a very important step in documents’ analysis field. Skew is a major problem in documents’ analysis for every language. For Arabic/Persian document scripts this problem is more severe because of special features of these languages. In this paper a...

Mastering vocabulary knowledge has always been a major concern for language learners (Nation, 2002). The present research mainly concerned with the impression comparing the performance of Iranian bilingual EFL students with monolingual groups by means of the treatment of the etymology of unknown English words upon their vocabulary retention. The ongoing research aimed at exploring the significa...

This paper describes an extension to ditroff/ffortid, a system for formatting bi-directional text in Arabic, Hebrew and Persian. The previous version of the system is able to format mixed left-to-right and rightto-left text using fonts with separated letters or with connecting letters and only connection stretching, achieved by repeating fixed-length baseline fillers. The latest extension adds ...