since a long time ago, poets and orators used various knowledge sources and human sciences to express thoughts, intentions, and their intellectual achievements. for instance, they utilized natural and supernatural elements and names of geographical places as the sources of their artistic creation. the old poets and orators, which are known as the laureates and frontiers of classic literature, u...

but more modest historical achievements to be justly proud of. Furthermore, these authors ‘quote’ references which are pure fabrications on the part of the authors and the original sources do not contain such statements. A corollary of such a practice is that unsubstantiated statements become repeated and copied in subsequent writings of one article to the next and so these untruths become esta...

jondishapour school was the first center of cultural transmission in the world among various civilizations like the greek, syriac, hindi, chinese and roman formed by permissive policies of khosro anushirvan in iran. the idea that iranian knowledge can be flourished with the help of progress made in science in different cultures was, for the first time, suggested by khosro anushirvan and his com...

Fantastic Realism is a genre which remind us of Russia and its great writer Dostoevsky. This genre has been developed in Iran among Iranian writers who have been familiar with the books of world literature, especially Russian literature. Fantastic Realism employs and combines reality and imagination, and while it concerns the reality related to human beings, it pictures that kind of reality whi...

the existence of eight imitations and five translations of hosn va del into other languages such as english and german shows the importance of this persian book of verse. many researchers have sought the sources of this work and some sources have been mentioned, but the imitation of sibak neishaburi from nezami’s khosrow va shirin, as the most important source of this work, has not yet been m...

at early period of ghobad’s reign, sassanid king (486-531ad), an important movement occurred, headed by mazdak, for several social, economic and political reasons so that the king supported it in order to weaken the position of great figures and clergymen as well. naturally, important people opposed the given movement and dethroned ghobad king from power and he managed to resume his reign again...

soryani school is one of the most important medical schools dating back from the ancient world to the islamic period. since its establishment (contemporary with alexander) up to the empowerment of ashkanid and sasanid dynasties, and since arabs attacked the foundation of abbasid dynasty (a period of about 1000 years), the soryani school which was very active in mesopotamia and northern syria, m...

ground penetrating radar (gpr) and magnetic methods were used at ghasr-e-shirin town in kermanshah province, southwest of iran for detecting a series of large ancient (ca 1500 years) underground cavities (tagh). the area of study is a historical monument which is named as emarat e khosro. radar and total intensity magnetic field measurements have been done on the eastern part of the complex, wh...