Shahnameh of Ferdowsi has been continuously studied by numerous researchers and scholars from literary, mythological and cultural aspects. One of the rarely and less noticed issues in this regard is investigating the ideological role and function of language in this piece of literature based on a certain adopted theory and method. In other words, the writers of this article try to understand ho...

ferdowsi was an outstanding orator, a messenger of freedom, not one with a sense and spirit to please the rulers of the time, nor a poet laureate composing his poems upon orders of rulers', neither affiliated to any court. this national poet was the creator of the central and basic locus of stories, as well as the founder of national palace of poetic language and philosophic rhetoric. what...

houshang, second mythical king of iran, is introduced as pishdad in historical texts. he had the most important duties such as collecting water in ponds, ordering to hunt wild animals, clothes making, carpeting using animal's skin, and encouraging people to agriculture. arabic historical texts are written in the early islamic centuries narrating the stories of persian kings. they were derived f...

Sohrab Effati Department of Mathematical Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, P.O. Box 917751159, Mashhad, Iran and Center of Excellence on Soft Computing and Intelligent Information Processing (SCIIP), Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran [email protected] Alireza Nazemi∗ Department of Mathematics, School of Mathematical Sciences, Shahrood University, P.O. Box 3619995161-316, S...

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1. (Corresponding autho ) PhD student, Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran. [email protected] 2. PhD student, Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Ira...

tarikh-e jahangosha is the most important work about kharazmshahian and the mongols. utilising imagery, rhetoric, abundant persian and arabic poems, quranic verses and traditions, and proverbs have caused the prose to resemble poetry, fading its historical goals. here, quoting verses from the mythological parts of shahnameh, rostam and sohrab stories (37verses), and rostam and esfandiar (26 ver...

i Nazbanoo Farzaneh. Computer Engineering Department, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Azadi Square, Mashhad, IRAN. (email: [email protected]) ii * Corresponding Author, Mohammad Hossein Yaghmaee Moghaddam is with the Department of Computer Engineering and Center of Excellence on Soft Computing and Intelligent Information Processing, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran (e-mail...

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...