there are different commentaries on rumi’s masnavi, each focusing on it from different pints of view such as literary aesthetics, mysticism, philosophy and subject matter. these various commentaries – including those by reynold nicholson, jafar shahidi, mohammad estelami and karim zamani – make their comparison and contrast inevitable. despite their great affinity, they are different from each ...

William Nicholson was an English chemist as well a journalist, publisher, inventor, patent agent, and civil engineer (Figure 1). He wrote several important books on very different topics ranging from physics chemistry to architecture marine navigation. His contribution science in establishing 1797 the first periodic scientific journal: Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Arts, which gener...