In the sixth century, At the same time with the Seljuks Empire in Iran, the Shiite hadith spent their recess time. New writing styles rarely emerge in in this period. Thus, Shiite hadith works in the Seljuks period are less than previous one. Shiite hadith written styles in this period include “recording Arba'in” (Forty Hadith), "recording Manaqib" “record...

Due to the plurality of the rulers’ religions, many of the religious miniatures in the hand-written copies at the beginning of the Ilkhanate period contained subjects relating to the prophets and different religions. In the second half of the Ilkhanate period, a new wave of Shi’ism appeared among the rulers that matched with their political and governmental intentions and thoughts. The question...

from philosophical , structure, form of architecture and ornaments point of view, Minarets are one of the key elements of Islamic architecture that need to be researched and contemplated in these four areas. In Iran, Building minarets as a mean of spiritual guidance started before Islam and reached to its peak in Seljuk period. This structure was first built near important routes, plains, insid...

Transtextuality theory of Gerard Genette offered a systematic classification in the field of intertextuality studies. This theory includes five main parts: Intertextuality, Paratextuality, Metatextuality, Architextuality and Hypertextuality. In this article one of Kamal al-Din Behzad’s artworks, namely “The Story of Yusof & Zoleikha” has been analyzed by these five parts of Transtextuality theo...