shah ismail established a dynasty in iran on the premises of nationality and religion. to establish national unity in iran, he announced shia as the official religion. his goal was to strengthen iranian national bonds. the presence of uzbeks in the east and ottomans in the west made it necessary that iranian people reinforce their feeling of patriotism and love for they homeland. shah ismail be...

nushāfarin nāme is an iranian prose folk tale recounting the passionate love and courageous acts of “prince ibrahim”, the son of “jahangir shah”, a king of china, to attain the hand of his beloved, nushāfarin gowhartāj ,the daughter of damascus king. there are stylistic features of folk tales and traditional romances to be perceived in this tale, as heroic deeds, and the presence of supernatura...

1Emmy Noether Group of the DFG, Department of Cardiology and Pneumology, European Heart Research Institute Göttingen, Georg August University Medical Center, University of Göttingen, D37075 Göttingen, Germany; 2Institute of Physiology, University of Würzburg, D-97070 Würzburg, Germanyp; 3Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, W12 0NN London, ...

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regarded as one of the most important concepts in structuralism, the theory of binary opposition has long been used as a yardstick against which structuralists measure their researches in the wide realms of linguistics, narratives, philosophy, cultural studies, anthropology, and psychology. employing binary opposition in structural anthropology, lévi-strauss aimed to discover human’s cognitive ...