There is an ancient and well-known Asian folk-tale that, in a version by the poet Rumi in Tales from the Masnavi, tells of four men who are asked to feel an elephant in a dark room and describe what they are sensing. Each of them touches just one part of the elephant, so they all reach different conclusions and think that they are in the presence of either a water-spout, a fan, a pillar, or a t...

Annotation. The path of struggle, numerous works and literary journalistic heritage Abu Nasir Mubashshir at-Tarazi (1896-1977), a native historical Taraz city, prominent religious political figure who spent 47 years in emigration, still remain without due attention research Kazakhstan. voluminous poetic work the ulema Persian, Yadgar Zandan ia Aynei Jahan (Memory Prison or Mirror World), was bo...

In the study of Ismailism, an important role was played by discovery and subsequent in late 19th early 20th centuries handwritten sources containing doctrinal Ismaili texts. Turning to these put this area Islam on a scientific basis for first time. The poem (masnavi) Nasir-i Khusrav “The Book Enlightenment” (Rawšanā'ī - nameh) belongs very texts kind. This article includes annotated translation...

Image or imagination, ink and paste are the main themes of poetry, since end sixth century, which is one most fertile periods Persian literature, poets this period freely imposed many poetic fantasies on And for centuries, with various acquisitions, they were influential in poetry generations after them (Shafiee, 1999, pp. 404 405). The use abstract difficult philosophical concepts mystical wor...

searching the reasons for the superiority of one text over another with the same theme and the same subject has long been a vital question up on the minds of literary critics. dealing with these types of texts, this critical question has always been outstanding in the mind of serious literary critics that why the narration of one author is more cohesive than the other's. so analyzing the s...