stylistics is one of the main trends that try to look for beauties in the text. it interested in studying literary texts based on an objective approach for analyzing texts to find the beauties. we can get through that by analyzing the language and rhetorical phenomena in the text in terms of the three levels, vocal, synthetic, and indicative. style is one rhetorical face in the book nahjo al-ba...

This essay aims to examine the characteristics and criteria of good management as prescribed by the Qur’an and traditions, especially the sayings of Imam Ali (a) in Nahj al-balagah. These have been recommended by the aforementioned sources with the intent of creating a prosperous society. By “management” we mean the general sense of the word, which includes the management of organizat...

the amount of reliability on outward aspects of the quran and the role of traditions in it has been one of the linguistic basics of the holy quran and it has allocated to itself a large volume of principled and hermeneutical subjects. we faced two sets of statements in teachings of imam ali (pbuh). the first category are the evidences that it may be understood from them authority and validity o...

imam ali (a) has paid special attention to human awareness of death and the necessity for remembering death. he attempts to lead man to a high degree of self-knowledge and meaningfulness of life through a comprehensive understanding of death. as is considered, death is essentially interrelated to life and, therefore, every lack of correct knowledge toward the former would affect human self-know...

quranic knowledge and injunctions can be explained and understood in three levels, and its full grasp will not be possible without considering the prophet¨s interpretation of the qur'an. it is necessary for an interpreter of the qur'an to have access to the prophet¨s interpretation. that is why imam ali, the rightful successor of the prophet, is regarded as the second interpreter or, ...

Seirogan, a popular anti-diarrhoeal pill, is arguably one of the most successful pharmaceutical products of modern Japan. What is less known is that the Japanese army initially developed Seirogan during the Russo-Japanese War as the ‘Conquer-Russia-Pill’, which was later marketed to the public by private manufacturers. Previous scholars have emphasised the top–down governmental method of mobili...