tarikh-e jahangosha is the most important work about kharazmshahian and the mongols. utilising imagery, rhetoric, abundant persian and arabic poems, quranic verses and traditions, and proverbs have caused the prose to resemble poetry, fading its historical goals. here, quoting verses from the mythological parts of shahnameh, rostam and sohrab stories (37verses), and rostam and esfandiar (26 ver...

Stories containing counterintuitive concepts are prevalent in a variety of cultural forms including folktales, TV and radio commercials, and religious parables. Cognitive scientists such as Boyer [2, 3] suggest that this may be because counterintuitive concepts are surprising and more memorable for people and therefore are more likely to become widespread in a culture. How and why people rememb...

story and novel writing have been a traditional legacy of india and they have been a part of indian culture. story writing has a pronounced past and an equally impeccable present. epics like the mahabharata and ramayana as well as fables like the panchtantra are acclaimed as the heritage of glorious works of literature across the world. persian, urdu and hindi languages are very closely linked ...

the creation of adam/human being is one of the most important and ubiquitous subjects in different religious and non-religious works. among the questions which can repeatedly be found in such works are: how was adam/human being created? why was he created? why was he placed on the earth? what is his status among the other creatures? old rituals, religions, literary and mythical works have tried...

Of the many dilemmas facing the assessment of literary competence, one is the extent to which language should constitute part of the target construct intended to be measured. Some argue for the construct-irrelevance of language and hence recommend that it be eliminated or minimized in favor of an exclusive focus on literary competence. In practice, this does not seem to be the case, as language...

Katherine Mansfield, remembered as one of the finest writers of English short stories, enjoys enduring fame and a somewhat awesome literary status with her short stories, Miss Brill as one of her representative pieces. The interest of our Chinese critics, in general, locates more in the modernist techniques and devices she employs to present the inner world of the characters in her stories, tha...

Scholars have approached the study of rabbinic sage stories from a wide range of methodological perspectives, including historical, literary, folkloric and, most recently, cultural studies. Despite this variety of approaches, there exists a broad consensus among scholars on one key issue: sage stories are an essentially aggadic, and therefore non-halakhic, genre. As such, the question of how be...