Mosques, as symbol of Islamic architecture must play an important role in reflecting the superiority of Allah the Almighty. There are many ways in making it successful and one of them is through the high quality of aesthetic value. Aesthetic value in Islamic art and architecture is normally portrayed by the highest degree of motifs and ornamentation. Contemporary mosque designers normally focus...

One of the most important aspects of an artistic expression in a work of art is the hidden form of its infrastructure. This item is especially noteworthy in Iranian painting. Symbolic and artistic expression in the works of the Safavid period are manifested in a well-organized manner in many paintings. Among the paintings depicted in the school of Tabriz II, the painting of Worldly and Otherwor...

the rise and stublishment of safavid dynasty was depend on triangle of tasavof, tashayo and royalty, kings legitimized their power upon these. therefore for the understanding the functions of that period we must explore the role of this elements. although application and emphsise upon dignities such as; complete mentor (morshede kamel), deputy of absent imam (nayebe imame ghayeb), and god’s sha...

     The present study entitled: "Transformation" and "Destruction" in Jalaludin Mohammad Balkhi’s (Rumi) Poetry intends to analyze two of the most common and prominent mystical terms that are "transformation" and “destruction”, in his Masnavi and Divan Kabir, through untying the meanings of these two terms. It also intends to explain the meaning of pieces of verse that are related to these two...

The hypothesis of  the  present  research is that in Iranian mysticism, there is an outlook that according to Sohravardi’s opinion is called the philosophy of  the spiritual insight or the Hekmat khosravāni (Philosophy of Kings) and everybody who has been in line with this philosophy is the follower of Hermes. The present research tries to show that the Hermesian chara...

the present study has tried to accomplish an analysis of margaret atwood’s novels oryx and crake, and the year of the flood in the light of posthuman and cyborg theories. considering posthumanism as a critical reading of some notions of humanism focus of which in this thesis has been identity, new definitions for humanity and human identity are formed. haraway’s cyborg, as one possible new figu...