Whether understanding and interpreting the holy Quran by the other than the immaculate Imams is valid or it is restricted to the immaculate is one of the subjects of disagreement among the Shiite theologians and traditionists. Those who believe in the validity of the understanding and interpretation of the holy Quran by other than the immaculate Imams as evidence refer to some traditions. In ...

Achaemanid art is one of the most important periods of Iranian ancient culture. In different periods of time, it has been considered as the determiner of the Iranian identity. The art of this era has been analyzed and investigated in different ways. According to the range of the available studies and the intertextuality which is the approach of this study, the research question is that whether ...

Diverse artistic media in a nomadic community, despite their differences, represent the familiar traditions and beliefs of their creators. Text is a dynamic site in which relational processes and practices are the focus of analysis instead of static structures and products. Every text is an intertext that borrows, knowingly or not, from the immense archive of previous culture. Intersemiotic tra...