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...

samak-e ayyar has been told by sadaghat ebn-e abolghasem in the same way it was recounted in public places. faramarz ebn-e khodadad-e arrajani, in turn, has adopted and retold the story, retaining the same stylistic features used by professional public reciters. ayyari tricks and stratagems are of magical and military nature and are used by common people, wanderers, magicians and fairies in thi...

image of woman in literature is an important issue of critical feminism. it can be argued that literature is the society's mirror, but unfortunately this mirror has not yet reflected a beautiful image of woman. with some exceptions women are usually given a nasty and negative image. this paper is a study on the images of women in some anecdotes and stories that had been written between 6th...

Ismail A. Ismail , Mohamed A. Ramadan , Talaat S. El-Danaf 3 And Ahmed H. Samak 4 Professor, Dean, College of Computers and informatics , Misr international University, Egypt Professor, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Menofia University , Egypt, Ass. Professor, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Menofia University , Egypt 4 Ass. Lecturer , Department of Mathematics, F...

4 0 7 SUPERNUMERARY FINGERS AND TOES. Bv J. W. CORNWALL, M.A., M.D., d.p.h., LIEUT.-COL., I.M.S., AND S. RAMASAMY AYYAR, Sub-Assistant Surgeon. In the hope that'they may be of some interest and use to students of heredity we publish the pedigrees of two Hindu families each of which possesses several members afflicted with either supernumerary fingers or toes or both. One female from family 2 ma...