Ancient population expansions and dispersals often leave enduring signatures in the cultural traditions of their descendants, as well as in their genes and languages. The international folktale record has long been regarded as a rich context in which to explore these legacies. To date, investigations in this area have been complicated by a lack of historical data and the impact of more recent w...

in every field, typology leads to a better, more complete and more precise knowledge. in spite of the importance and extent of traditional persian stories, there is as yet no complete classification of these stories. most of the present classifications are imprecise, mixing the different kinds of stories. this paper merely deals with an analysis, criticism, morphology and typology of persian tr...

literary adaptation is recasting literary books such as novels, short stories, or even poems in a new form such as films, stage plays, or even video games. persian literature abounds with dramatic events. there are many fascinating narratives such as shahnameh of ferdowsi, khmseh of nezami, mathnavi of rumi, and tarikh-e beyhaghi of beyhaghi, which have the dramatic capacity of literary adaptat...

looking at the history of adaptation from literary sources in various kinds of worldwide dramatic arts such as cinema, television and theatre shows that adaptation can well fill the existing text-gaps in theatre and other forms of dramatic arts. in persian literature, although the literary texts aredescriptive, there are many works possess high dramatic potentials and may be used to enrich the ...

an important feature of the holy quran, which has often gone unnoticed, is its rich vocabulary and expressions employed to eloquently express various aspects of daily life. this aspect of the holy quran is often reflected in everyday conversations of people from various walks of life: the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the literate and the illiterate, the master and the peasant. this...

compared to other persian didactic literary works like the works of sanaei and attar, stories in the mathnavi have a unique position. a great number of the stories of the mathnavi were not created by mo'lavi himself; they have been presented in previous sources, including attar's manteggotteyr (conference of birds). relation between the manteghotteyr and the stories of mathnavi is over-textual,...