abd- al sami’ ibn-mohammad-ali- yazdi is one of the lettered, jurists & poets of 13th century (a.h) that has done valuable services to the arabic language and literature like so many other iranian. so far, there are only a few biographical books in which he has been mentioned or introduced. unfortunately he has been forgotten during the passage of time. most of his writings are in arabic and th...

although tadao ando never refers to phenomenology explicitly, concentrating on his numerous texts and writings reveals that his way of thinking on architecture implies some essential themes and concerns, which are fundamentally related to the “phenomenological discourse” in both philosophy and architecture. concepts and ideas such as :union: of subject and object, space, body and movement, memo...

andre makine, a writer of russian ancestry residing in france, propounds the west enthusiastically and lyrically in his early novels. he visualizes the west as a lost paradise which is both fascinating and fanciful contrary to his childhood vision of russia. however, as time passes, following his immigration to france, his encounter with reality shatters and ruins the rudimental idealism which ...

mustafa lutfi el-manfaluti is one of the literary men whose writing method was effective on literary change of the previous generation. he was born in egypt. he was interested in reading literary books; that’s why he had completed the science by mohammad abdoh. he had translated many stories and articles and had applied some french stories in his writings. his books are the most eloquent arabic...

the scholarly character of khālid b. yazīd and his attempts in acquiring and spreading of knowledge has always been of doubt to researchers and, with the expansion in the field of research on roots of science, has taken a mythical form. in earlier centuries, ibn khaldūn, and in the modern age, such researchers as ruska, kraus, ulman, sarton, and mieli have totally denied khālid’s attempts in th...