OPEN ACCESS-PAID-CC BY-NC-ND In historically Protestant countries, human skeletal reference collections curated by research institutions have been amassed from bodies dissected anatomists, typically unclaimed cadavers morgues and hospitals, or remains donated to science. contrast these anatomy-based donation-based collections, in Roman Catholic countries on mainland Europe Latin America are for...

The two ancient civilizations of Iran and India, due to their long-standing cultural, political and economic relations, have had a relative cognition of each other's identity, which has, over time, become more logical, complete, and at times symbolic. Undoubtedly, in order to understand the history of Iran and India in ancient times and how these two nations interacted, we must inevitably find ...

Heterodox mystics and heretics of any kind can be sometimes dangerous and other times reliable depending upon political situations, as was the case with Bektashis in Ottoman Anatolia or in early independent Albania. The historical anthropology perspective taken in this article appears helpful in revealing that Bektashism is probably the mystical order of Islam that best exemplifies a transforma...

one of the goals of comparative literature is to investigate the common and different aspects of cultural and historical background of people to better discover the connection between nations and civilizations. this paper compares the similarities in life and poetry of the two iranian & arbic poets sa' d salman & abu f oras hamdan both imprisoned for long period of time.

priorities (Powell, 2002; Wadman, 2005). Europeans have their own problems with dogmatic thinking too, albeit arising from a different historical and cultural background. Consider the often-irrational positions taken by the Green parties, pro-life groups and environmental groups in Germany and England who indiscriminately reject stem-cell research or genetically engineered crops. Or the fact th...

in this article , firstly a brief survey of iranian-british official political relations are considered . then , it would be studied cultural relations of two countries in the qajar era .role of the english in these relations are evaluated in sections . first , actors of the relations are noted i four groups in  cluding diplomats , military forces , tourists and other scholars and researchers ....