lent discharges and it is further added, that ?' in the male this is frequently attended with an inflammation of the testicle, .and in some cases is followed by symptoms referable to the joints and eye." Though in the present day this primary affection of the generative organs has the popular name of Sozdk, and the same name is given to it by the learned writers in Persian or Urdu, such a disea...

Modern Persian permits coda clusters, many of which violate the Sonority Sequencing Principle. In a syllable counting task, Persian speakers consistently perceived clusters in CVCC target items as monosyllabic, whereas English speakers generally perceived clusters existing in English as monosyllabic but those not existing in English as bi-syllabic. Moreover, the latter were perceived as monosyl...

Early modern prescriptive literature about household spatial and social ordering primarily informs us of elite male views. Few contemporary sources exist to suggest women’s notions about these issues. Early modern dollhouses could shed some light on the views of both sexes, as makers, patrons, and collectors of such objects. Such artefacts have rarely been considered a source for historic perce...

This study examines the early multiculturalism of Abbasid Empire. The purpose is to demonstrate significance historical in building a governmental-social system. analysis also integrates Persian and Greco-Roman multicultural models. argues that Dynasty, which succeeded Umayyad Dynasty after revolution, had introduced unique model by establishing tolerant libertarian imperial structure. In effec...

Considering the art of Persian rug design as a computation creative design problem, with a vast domain space of possible design solutions that have aesthetic, cultural and historical considerations, we describe our dual stage genetic algorithm system for designing basic patterns of a specific type of Persian rugs. Our approach uses hard and soft design rules that we have been gleaned from the p...

Abstract The Rare Books department at the Free Library of Philadelphia owns a deluxe manuscript Sa'di's Kulliyat , originally produced in mid-sixteenth century Shiraz and substantially modified more modern times. Among alterations was insertion copy famous Timurid painting “Humay Humayun garden”, belonging to Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. version Paris likely based on either published repro...

abstract: mystic literature (irfān) in general and sufi literature in particular has always been alluring to the scholars interestingly working in different fields from literary, religious, philosophical, historical to other fields which may have little in common. among sufi theologians, farid ud-din attar neishabouri is the one whom no one has ever been able to surpass in creating works which ...