mountains and trees have many similarities. in this way, simorgh of shahnameh shifts from the tree of vispobish to alborz mountain. if simorgh has spiritual existence in avesta, a devilish side has been added to it in shahnameh. in avesta, it lives on a tree, but in shahnameh we find him on alborz mountain. all the researches done on shahnameh and iranian mythology did not pay any attention to ...

due to its unique features derived from ancient iranian history and culture, ferdowsi’s shahnameh has captured the attention of all iranian social classes including the folk. the interest of the folk in the shahnameh can be witnessed in the common proverbs they use. the hemistiches, couplets and themes of this great masterpiece used as proverbs, or the proverbs including allusions to the epic s...

the old, rich and popular tradition of verbal story telling by narrators has been prevalent among all indo-europeans, especially aryans who were living in the iranian plateau, in the eastern parts of iran and khorasan. this tradition of oral narration has kept fiction and also historical events and has transmitted them to us. the writer of this article tries to evaluate this tradition and analy...

Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh is full of stories which are rooted in myths. The characters can be analyzed from different viewpoints. Keykhosrow one the eminent In this paper, relying on desk study, document and content analysis, adoption Marcel Mauss’ anthropological approach Eliade’s theory about magic doctors we have his magical actions. findings paper show that Iranian-Turanian a potential witch. He...

1. introduction in epic narratives, heroes have a specific and key role in the processing of epic development. some heroes’ roles are based on the situation in which they have been created. thus, the epic narrator states their life journey from the beginning to the end in a vicissitude process. however, some heroes do not have a specific position in epic stories as they appear as a thunder in s...

irony is one of the important branches of expression and creation in the word is ofthe most beautiful tricks. this article aims to analyze the functions of irony in the introduction of shahnameh. for this section, the ironic, rhetorical than other techniques, the most frequency dard.knayh extracted, respectively, of the current knayە, irony of adjectives and have the highest frequency, the curr...

1 Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Noshirvani Institute of Technology, Mazandauan University, P.O. Box 47148-71167, Babol, Iran 2Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashad, P.O. Box 91779-48974, Mashad, Iran 3Faculty of Computer Engineering and Information Technology, Amirkabir University of Technology, P.O. Box 15914, T...