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...

since eighth century, much attention has been given by painters on khamseh works due its romantic and lyric stories. female is a heroine or she has a significant role in most of khamseh works, that show its contributions on nezamis works. unlike common negative view about women in society, nezami considered a high social level for them. in the different periods these stories, especially lily an...

some of the iranian artworks during the 10th-14th centuries have been illustrated by narrative scenes showing a cavalier archer king in the hunting ground of gazelles; while a tiny lyre playing girl sat back him. according to shāhnāma-i-fērdowsī and haft peykar-i- nizami ganjavi, such scenes narrate the story of sassanid king bahram-i- gūr and āzāda, his lyre player servant girl. it should be n...

Nasir Khosrow embarks upon a seven year journey in order to come to terms with his spiritual crisis. The quest was the inevitable outcome of the tensions and conflicts between Nasir and the institutionalized forms of power and knowledge. The tensions lead to the formation of a series of binary oppositions—verbal and nonverbal—within the text of his travelogue. The researchers have analyzed the ...

1. introduction persian literary works with no apparent political themes have for long played an effective role in the political orientation of iranians. in fact, a great part of iranshahri political doctrine has found its way intothe literary works in the islamic era. these include the four firstchapters ofnizami’smakhzan al-asrar(the treasury of mysteries). a glimpse at nizamiganjavi’s biblio...

iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank Dr. George Alexandrakis for giving me this great opportunity in pursuing my interests in biomedical engineering. His continuous advice and support have been a great help throughout my research. I am sincerely grateful to Dr. Khosrow Behbehani for his time and advice on both my project and schoolwork. I would like to also thank Dr. Hanli Liu for her sup...

The PSA and hK2 genes are known to be regulated by androgens and progestins in vitro. To detennine if this also occurs in vivo, plasma and urinary PSA and hK2 were immunoassayed in 32 fernale-to-male transsexuals before, at 4 and at 12 months of testosterone treatment, as well as in 3 groups of rnale-tofernale transsexuals undergoing 3 types of androgen-suppressing therapy. Due to testosterone,...

AndrogenDeprivation Therapy and Subsequent Dementia To the Editor To date, only a few reports in the literature provide clinical evidence for the role of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) in the risk of dementia.1-3 Among these 3 studies, only the study by Nead et al1 reported a positive association between ADT and the risk of dementia. To explain the discrepancy in the hazard ratio (HR), a be...

following the death of nader shah afshar, the province of kurdistan, with sanandaj being the capital, ruled by the local influential dynasty of ardalan, underwent a severe power struggle triggered by pretenders to the government of iran, just as many other provinces experienced a similar power struggle. in addition, the strategic location of kurdistan as the closest neighboring province of otto...