Nahj al-Balagheh which is the mirror of the thought of the speaking Quran and the speaker of the Quran, namely Ali, the Commander of the Faithful, is a great and invaluable book, whose beautiful form and deep thoughts have distinguished it from other works. Since the conception and emergence of this work a special interest has been shown in editing it and extracting its knowledge. Chronologic...

Every literary text, arise from the previous text and outcome of the interaction and dependencies between structural and semantic aspects and collection of quotes. Nahj al-Balagheh as a text, contains Quranic intertextuality, the Prophetic hadiths and Arab poetry. Since intertextuality  divided  to three types; quotation, plagiarism, allusion. in this paper, for answering the ques...

‘Stupidity’ is one of the topics in the field of behavioral abnormalities discussed by psychologists. Imam Ali (a.s.), who has made special efforts to correct behavioral abnormalities, has dealt with ‘stupidity’ in numerous cases in “Nahj al-Balagheh”. The present study seeks to examine the components of ‘stupidity’ from the perspective of “Nahj al-Balagheh”. It was carried out using the descri...

One of the Commentaries on Nahj al-Balagheh is the Commentary of Ibn Abi al-Hadid al-Mutazili. In this work, in his explanation of the speeches of the commander of the faithful he has employed certain constituents in order to make the explanation of the speeches of the Imam interesting. His interpretation of Nahj al-Balagheh is precise and is founded on certain principles. The present article...

One of the most important challenges of yesterday, today and tomorrow of human societies is moral degeneration. Nahj al-Balagheh, one of the most fundamental moral books, emphasizes this social structure a lot. For this purpose, the present study has been conducted with the aim of identifying and evaluating the categories of social ethics in the form of a qualitative model from the book of Nahj...

It is evident that observing the religious and social norms often leads to more order in different affairs of life and the development of the society, especially in its scientific, cultural and economic institutions. Every society or group has its special principles, laws, customs and conventions to maintain relationships among each other and to exercise their individual and social affairs,...

Anthropology is one of the branches of human sciences that recently has been under attention of the psychologists. The purpose of this paper was to compare the fundamental concepts of mental health from Adler's point of view with traits of virtue individuals in Nahj-Ol-Balagheh. The method of gathering information was library and the research method was descriptive of the analytical type. The t...