some of the iranian artworks during the 10th-14th centuries have been illustrated by narrative scenes showing a cavalier archer king in the hunting ground of gazelles; while a tiny lyre playing girl sat back him. according to shāhnāma-i-fērdowsī and haft peykar-i- nizami ganjavi, such scenes narrate the story of sassanid king bahram-i- gūr and āzāda, his lyre player servant girl. it should be n...

haft-peykar (or bahram-nameh) is the fourth nizami’s verse composition in terms of time and one of his masterpieces besides his khosrow and shirin. haft-peykar consists of two general parts: the first part is about bahram and his life and the second one is about the stories of his seven wives. the structure of the book makes it possible to be criticized through a formalistic approach. the chara...

dans cet article, nous analyserons le discours narratif dans haft peykar, l’œuvre de nézami, afin d’étudier les éléments de l’acte narratif : la personne, le héros/narrateur, la fonction narrative et le destinataire. on examinera ainsi la structure des récits des sept princesses et ceux des sept prisonniers, constituant deux cycles de récits dans le récit principal. nous constaterons ainsi la v...

with hisextensiveknowledgeof mythologicalstories, astronomy andalchemy, nezamicreatesin haft peykara mysterious narration, which offers new dimensions and colors in every reading.bahrām-egōr, the hero ofnezami’s narration, goes through sevenstages toachieveself-knowledgeand perfection. this process ofindividualityterminateson a friday by his marriage withthe iranian princess. bahrām’s (mars) ma...

Genetic regulation of acute tolerance to ethanol may be associated with ethanol consumption and other ethanol-related behaviors in rodents. We have used lines of mice, selectively bred for high and low acute functional tolerance (HAFT and LAFT, respectively) to ethanol-induced loss of balance to test this hypothesis. Replicate HAFT and LAFT lines differ in AFT to ethanol-induced loss of balance...

The transcriptome can reveal insights into precancer biology. We recently conducted RNA-Seq analysis on liver RNA from male rats exposed to the carcinogen, aflatoxin B1 (AFB1), for 90 days prior to liver tumor onset. Among >1,000 differentially expressed transcripts, several novel, unannotated Cufflinks-assembled transcripts, or HAfTs (Hepatic Aflatoxin Transcripts) were found. We hypothesized ...

The archaeometallurgy of copper have been pioneer technologies in ancient Iran and goes back to about ten thousand years ago in Iranian Plateau [1, 2]. The Haft Tappeh Middle Elamite Site is located in Southwest Iran and have been an important city belonging to early phase of Middle Elamite period (14th century BCE) [3, 4]. Based on various metallurgical evidences found in archaeological excava...