praising of holy prophet is of those topics, which have drawn the poets’ attention since early islamic period and they have versified a lot of poems in this regard. this started with odes from some poets like kaab ibn zohayr, kaab ibn malek, hassan (ibn sabet), and other versifiers of islamic period. despite of its dormancy which governed during omayyad and abbasid dynasties, it resumed moving ...

Acknowledgements This thesis arose, in parts, out of couple of years of my research that started in 2007 when I came to KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. During the course of my research, I worked with a great number of people whose contributions, in assorted ways, towards my research and the making of this thesis deserve a special mention. It's my pleasure to convey my de...

fatemeh karimi tabar was born in asadabad/hamedan (iran) in 1986. she completed her b.sc. in chemistry in 2008 from bu-ali sina university, hamedan, iran. she was graduated from m.sc. degree in organic chemistry from shiraz university 2010, shiraz, iran. she is currently organic chemistry ph.d student under the supervision of prof. m.a. zolfigol and prof. a. khazaei in department of chemistry a...

This study investigates how domestic violence and abuse have been portrayed in Bina Shah’s Slum Child. The analyzes women’s portrayal construes violence, abuse, marginalization, victimization. employs Thematic Roles given by Andrew Radford, as cited Saeed to explore the linguistic choices which are significant reflecting underlying ideology of author. Research shows that beats, mourns, screams,...

This article examines Vygotskian cultural-historical theory by putting it into dialogue with Stephen Pepper’s root metaphor theory. I focus on Vygotsky’s insistence on the dialectical unity of the phylogenetic and ontogenetic domains in ontogenesis, which he articulated in his account of how the natural-psychological and cultural-psychological lines of development merge with the emergence of sp...