With the outbreak of the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001, radical changes occurred in the area of international relations and terrorism has become a global concern. The event that was organized by al-Qaeda has linked terrorism with religion, especially Islam, and radical Islamic fundamentalist promote religious terrorists with their views and actions. In this regard, the most important i...

‘Surah coherence’ is an important aspect of the Quranic language, which, due to its unique role in interpretation, has been highly regarded by commentators and Quranic scholars, especially over the last half a century. According to this theory, each surah is centered around a main issue in such a way that all the topics of the surah create an all-encompassing unity. The present study intends to...

From among art history written sources in Iran, one can enumerate two prefaces in the Safavid era were written by a decade interval. One preamble is Doust Mohammad Gvashany’s on Bahram Mirza Album (952 AH) and the other is that written by Qutb al-Din Muhammad Shah Tahmasp Album (964 AH). Many authors in the Safavid era, exploited directly and/or indirectly these two prefaces ‘ conte...