Ascension (heavenly journey of Prophet Muhammad) is one of the most important religious issues that its representation was especially important in manuscripts of Islamic countries. In Timurid and Safavid periods, many painters worked in this field and famous people such as Kamal al-Din Behzad and Sultan Muhammad created fine works in the field. Due to the cultural relations with Safavid and Mug...

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...

language learning courseware has been receiving growing attention by english educators since its advent. a variety of softwares have been designed by software designers and resorted to by language educators to supplement language textbooks. this experimental study investigated how the application of computerized version of language textbooks and the reception of the entire course through comput...

abstract compound is a word-formation process that are made two free morpheme (independent) and forms a new word with a new meaning that consists of meaning of both two component of compound. avestan language is one of the ancient iranian languages that is one of the indo-iranian languages. indo-iranian languages is one branch of indo-european languages. structure of compound noun and adjectiv...

abstract due to the growing importance and influence of the self of the teacher in the field of educational and cognitive psychology, the current study intended to investigate the relationship between three teacher qualities and characteristics, i.e. teacher self efficacy, self regulation, and success as perceived by their learners. the study aimed at finding whether teacher self efficacy an...

The epistles of the nocturnal ascent are some versified or prosaic narrations deal with the Ascension orspiritual journey of the Prophet and his observations and levels in this Divine way. According to their cultural traditions and religious beliefs, the Iranian Muslim painters as well as the Persian poets and writers have illustrated this story and prepared several painted manuscripts. Some of...

The painters of Tahmasbi Shahnameh, in order to depict the text full of the story of Shahnameh, tried to convey emotions and excitement to the audience by using the visual language of the hand. Due to the multiplicity of applications of this type of nonverbal communication in different situations, the painter may have undergone changes in parts of her painting under the influence of various fac...