the purpose of this research is to study the hostile behavior of ahriman in destroying ahura mazda and his good creations, specially the creation of man. this hostility also continues in the reign of jamshid. one day jamshid sat upon a jewel-studded throne and the divs who served him raised his throne up into the air and he flew through the sky. feeling proud of what he saw, jamshid began to fo...

in ferdowsi’s shāh-nāmeh, “farr” is one of the most important and most frequent concepts. the ideal concept of “farr” appears in the charismatic (i.e. farreh-mand) person in the form of holy light, miraculous powers, mastery over nature, good fortune, or in the form of material indices like sacred animals and tools. this myth is associated with the formation of community, the concept of social ...

AIM To evaluate four different commercially available assays for anti-double stranded DNA (dsDNA) detection and compare them with the in-house radioimmunoassay according to Farr (FARR-RIA) in order to select the optimal primary method for use in combination with FARR-RIA. METHODS Sera from 583 consecutive patients sent to our laboratory for routine diagnosis, 156 selected patients with autoim...

In March 2011, anthracnose symptoms were observed on stems of Dracaena sanderiana as imported ornamental plant in Gorgan, Golestan province (NE Iran). According to the Farr et al. (2006) the pathogenic fungus were identified as Colletotrichum dracaenophilum D.F. Farr & M.E. Palm. 

In this paper I argue that J. L. Schellenberg’s Divine Hiddenness Argument is committed to a problematic implication that is weakened by research in cognitive psychology on affective forecasting. Schellenberg’s notion of a nonresistant nonbeliever logically implies that for any such person, it is true that she would form the proper belief in God if provided with what he calls “probabilifying” e...

Orthodoxy, and other so-called world religions that were complicit with colonialist expansion and its repression of the “other peoples” (indigenous), their rites and beliefs. For centuries, colonial societies have denied that indigenous peoples had “religions” at all; as the great photographer of Native North American cultures Edward S. Curtis stated, “There seems to be a broadly prevalent idea...