the thesis has been arranged into five chapters and mainly concerned with the baer-invariant of groups which is the generalization of the schur-multiplier with respect to the variety of groups. chapter one is devoted to collect some notation and background information which are needed in the next chapters. its also contains some important statements which will be generalized in this thesis. cha...

the present study has tried to accomplish an analysis of margaret atwood’s novels oryx and crake, and the year of the flood in the light of posthuman and cyborg theories. considering posthumanism as a critical reading of some notions of humanism focus of which in this thesis has been identity, new definitions for humanity and human identity are formed. haraway’s cyborg, as one possible new figu...

Holy prophet’s polygamy has since long been used as a pretext by the orientalists in order to twist the real face of Islamic mission. This issue gave rise to the anti-Islam writers to unfairly misjudge the facts of Islam. Different scholars have dealt with the issue from different latent angles in order to defend the presence of holy Prophet; however, the psychological and sociological angles o...

The ethic of war has been always of special importance for the scholars of the field. In this paper, the common views of western philosophers have been surveyed and then, using Quranic verses and traditions, the view of Islam on ethical justifiability of initial holy war has been explained, and some questions in the field have been answered. As legality of holy war in Islam has been based upon ...

Human mind and intelligence, respectively for thinking logically and thinking abstractly, are among the God-given gifts. Islamic teachings have paid special attention to human as a multi-dimensional creature with moral functions. In order to manage humane behavior, Islam encourages believers toward self-awareness, self-improvement, refinement, recognition of virtues, and moral beauties which ar...

when we return to the concept of poetry and the age-old discussion about the uselessness or the usefulness of the poets to the private and public state of human beings, originating from plato and aristotles views about poets respectively, there emerges the question of the role of poetry in human beings lives. in the same manner, with the advance of technology and the daily progress and improvem...