this article is concerned with a comparative review of jahân-nâme   by mohammad bin najib bakran and manuscripts of masâlek va mamâlek by abu al-hasan sâʽid bin ali jurjâni written by during the middle of ninth century ah. from this review it becomes clear that jorjâniʼs main source in writing his book was jahân-nâme and therefore jahân-nâme is also a good source for editing the masâlek.  howev...

haft-peykar (or bahram-nameh) is the fourth nizami’s verse composition in terms of time and one of his masterpieces besides his khosrow and shirin. haft-peykar consists of two general parts: the first part is about bahram and his life and the second one is about the stories of his seven wives. the structure of the book makes it possible to be criticized through a formalistic approach. the chara...

The "Kitab al-abniya an haqa iq al-adwiya" (Book of the Foundations of Pharmacognosy) also Known as "Rozat ol-ons wa manfa 'ar on-nafs" is the most ancient medical book in Persian (Farsi), which was written by Abu Mansur Movaffaq ibn Ali Heravi during the period of Mansur ibn Noh Samani between the years 350 to 366 lunar hegira. The book deals with 584 mineral, herbal and animal-based drugs. Th...

The "Kitab al-abniya an haqa iq al-adwiya" (Book of the Foundations of Pharmacognosy) also Known as "Rozat ol-ons wa manfa 'ar on-nafs" is the most ancient medical book in Persian (Farsi), which was written by Abu Mansur Movaffaq ibn Ali Heravi during the period of Mansur ibn Noh Samani between the years 350 to 366 lunar hegira. The book deals with 584 mineral, herbal and animal-based drugs. Th...

there is a semi-proverbial expression in some persian literary texts that has not yet indexed in none of persian dictionaries –such as loqat-nameh or any other proverb references and has been totally neglected. accordingly it seems necessary being explained.  it has been mentioned under different topics such as ibn-e hâjib’s lamb, ibn-e hâjib’s sheep, ibn-e hâjib’s ewe in divans of adib-ol-mamâ...

1. introduction shekarnameh ilkhani is a book about training and treatment of wild animals and birds, written by ali ibn mansour halvani based on several other books like baznameh and shekarnameh, especially that of malekshahi named after toghan teimurkhan. this book consists of three main sections. the first section is an introduction which is important for the development of baznameh and the ...

regarded as one of the most important concepts in structuralism, the theory of binary opposition has long been used as a yardstick against which structuralists measure their researches in the wide realms of linguistics, narratives, philosophy, cultural studies, anthropology, and psychology. employing binary opposition in structural anthropology, lévi-strauss aimed to discover human’s cognitive ...