jāmiʻ al-tamthīlwas written in 11th century ah. by muḥammad ʻalī hablehrūdī. this book is a collection of proverbs, insights and anecdotes and some sermons associated with them. there are a lot of manuscripts of this book in different libraries all over the world. the authors have found two different forms of writing through their critical corrections. although both forms are generally similar,...

vendor selection is dominantly considered to be a multi attribute decision making (madm) problem, since the decision maker needs to evaluate suppliers simultaneously in different and even contrastive evaluation criteria. one shortcoming of madm methods is that they only compare alternatives with each other, and there is no comparison with the requirements of the buying company. a very efficient...

counterfactual analysis is concerned with explaining events that have not happened. counterfactuals are mental experiments through which one can reconstruct hypothetical versions of the history in one’s mind; these versions are relatively different from the real history, but provide one with the opportunity to test historical hypotheses against the available evidence. historicist researchers in...

as the most important method of religious and ritual theater, ta’ziye has many capabilities in iran which can be used in different forms of modern visualization. the only element which has been studied in this kind of theater has been distancing in performance. through studying the existent versions of ta’ziye, one can find that there are other elements that have not been studied yet. the relat...

concept of “economic man” is one of the principal assumptions of economic approach to law. based on this assumption, economic approach, a modern and leading school of thought in legal philosophy, seeks to explain and predict individual behavior in legal framework and make recommendations and prescriptions so as to improve the effects of laws and regulations on legal actors. in this paper, in ad...

evaluation of the advantages and weaknesses of principles oftransnational civil procedure, the joint work of the institute of americanlaw and the institute of unification of private law is the main subject ofthis article. the innovations of these principles such as the cooperationtheory, the distinction between the “principles” and the “rules”, thereasonable speed in addressing the case, provid...