with the publication of djalal khaleghi motlagh’s critical edition, the need for editorial work on the entire shāh-nāma has disappeared. instead, researchers are now called upon to establish critical readings of the text through careful research and consideration of the textual variants given in khaleghi motlagh’s edition, facsimiles of shāh-nāma manuscripts, insights of other shāh-nāma scholar...

Abstract The feminist movement in the United States like other countries has tried to establish equality for women. From the first attempts to gain constitutional right for vote, up to the current radical demands, feminists have struggled to make changes in the U.S. party politics and obtain their rights within the parties. One of the important issues in which women played a key role in party ...

Social work curriculum that offers an optimistic perspective on aging has the potential to help social work students go on to practice in a nondiscriminatory way with older adults. This study introduces social work students to the productive aging concept, an optimistic view to social potential in later life, in lecture format and assesses postlecture changes in their perceptions of older adult...