Abstract The article discusses a little-known lost Persian tale, Story of Sharwin Dastabay , and traces references to it in Arabic, Persian, Byzantine sources. earliest the story come from mid- late eighth century, seems have remained well known Arabic literature until early twelfth possibly fourteenth while shows that at least some its elements circulated already mid-sixth century. also how ma...

a majority of books and writing translated from persian literature include persian proverbs among which wisdom and advice are of high importance. these books, as we know, are translated pieces of advice and wisdom from persian and are known as “books of advice”. this paper aims at showing that these books are among the basic principles of persian literature.  having studied historical and liter...

BACKGROUND The history of epilepsy and its treatments dates back to at least 4 millennia. Avicenna, c. 980 AD in Bukhara, Khorasan-1037 in Hamedan was a Persian-speaking Iranian physician, who has many recommendations and suggested various therapies for epilepsy in his book, The Canon of Medicine. METHODS We first reviewed the most important ancient treatments for epilepsy mentioned by Avicen...

versity, Frankfurt am Main. Originally more than 100 abstracts were submitted to the conference, from which 36 were selected for oral presentations and 19 for poster presentations. A number of contributors to the conference subsequently submitted their papers for publication in this issue of Orientalia Suecana, and after the reviewing process, the seven papers below were finally selected for pu...

The English usage of the term “map” in its modern technical sense as a two-dimensional graphic representation of the earth’s surface dates at least to 1527, although this primary meaning appears infrequently in poetry and drama throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, despite the fact that, as of 1600, maps, globes, and atlases had become commonplace; geographical knowledge occupied ...

This article discusses the outlook of Judeo-Persian Karaite authors on Rabbanite law and rabbinic literature based an exegetical corpus written in Early from eleventh century, which mostly remains manuscript form. A close examination this demonstrates authors’ complex attitude towards their contemporary Rabbanites early Jewish literature. By relying teachings community Jerusalem (the “Mourners ...