bahman-nāme, a late 5th-century (a.h.) or early 6th-century (a.h.) epic poem, is one of those significant poems that used the shāh-nāme as a model. this story was composed by īrānshāh in four parts. the first part recounts the adventures of bahman, son of esfandīār, who, at the behest of rostam, marries katāyūn, the daughter of the king of kashmir. although generally this poem belongs to the ep...

OBERT MALTHUS is exemplary in presenting a basic pessimism in his assessment of the prospects of the labouring poor— a pessimism about the long-term growth possibilities of an essentially organic, agrarian economy that he shares with his fellow classical economists writing in the second half of the eighteenth, and the early nineteenth, centuries. 2 He is, of course, well known for identifying w...

T heologian John Shea, STD, writing several years ago about CHA's Mission-Centered Leadership Competency Model, said that in health ministry the first step from faith to practicality—that is, concrete action on behalf of mission—is values. "Faith convictions and narratives are expressed in the full-blown religious language of the Catholic tradition, for example, God, Christ, sin, redemption, ch...

safīnat al-bihār wa madīnat al-hikam wa al-āthār, a precious book by sheikh abbās qumī, is a comprehensive content list for the famous book, bihar al-’anwār al-jāmi‘ah li al-durar al-akhbār al-’a’immat al-’athār by allāmah madjlesī. the big number of volumes bihar al-’anwār’ contains as well as the diverse subjects it covers, caused the hadīth narrator, qumī, to write a content list for that bo...

almost three centuries after the publication of the life and adventures of robinson crusoe, j. m. coetzee re-imagines the original story in two different versions; foe (1986) and his nobel prize acceptance speech, he and his man (2003). the recreation of one of the early novels of the western literary canon from the viewpoint of a marginalized character, which is technically called postcolonial...

The aim of this study was to examine the contribution of transcription skills, oral language skills, and executive functions to growth in narrative writing between fourth and sixth grade. While text length and story content of narratives did not increase with age, syntactic complexity of narratives showed a clear developmental progression. Results from path analyses revealed that later syntacti...

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Houshang Golshiri is among the Iranian leading creative and imaginative fiction writers who managed to open up new horizons in Iranian fiction. Hence he could be claimed to be an innovative avant-garde short story writer with unique stylistic characteristics. Although inspired by fiction writers such as Alavi, Sadeqi, Golestan and Sa'edi in the techniques of narration, Golshiri nonetheless stan...

the leili and majnoon story is one of the most beautiful love stories which however of it arabic base, by unmatched power and magnificent expression helps of nezami, this topic become one of the famous romantic love at persian language. and is one of the best romantic songs models at the persian poets that have many imitators. from the vast number of imitators can be named nor addin abd orahman...