textbooks play a crucial role in language learning classrooms. the problem is that among the great quantity of available textbooks on the market which one is appropriate for a specific classroom and a group of learners. in order to evaluate elt textbooks, theorists and writers have offered different kinds of evaluative frameworks based on a number of principles and criteria. this study evaluate...

Although Mirdamad is mainly known for his philosophical writing, he has many other works on narrational sciences, which are important to discuss and study. While writing his book Glosses on Al- Usul Al- Kafi, which considering the title of the book and its introduction seems to be written to explain the traditions collected by al-Kafi in his magnum opus of hadith, he understood that an investig...

toury (1978:200) believes that translation is a kind of activity which inevitably involves at least two languages and two cultural traditions. being polite while asking for something takes place differently in different cultures and languages, therefore various strategies may be applied for making requests and also translation of them in order not to disturb or threaten the face or better to sa...

1.1 introduction “i see translation as the attempt to produce a text so transparent that it does not seem to be translated. a good translation is like a pane of glass. you only notice that it’s there when there are little imperfections- scratches, bubbles. ideally, there shouldn’t be any. it should never call attention to itself.” “norman shapiro” (venuti, 1995:1) edward fitzgerald is the br...

Abstract: According to the prophetic traditions Interpreting Qur’anic verses based on personal opinions is one of the important points that should be avoided. One of its examples is involving personal theological opinions and principles -which are merely unrevised personal inferences- in interpretation of Quran. Fakhr Razi, according to the Ash'arites, has a deterministic view.  This is quite ...

This article is an attempt to study and answer the question how the Yamani mentioned in the traditions is described and what are the similarities and differences between the traditions of the two schools in regard of the Yamani. This research which is a library research discusses the most important questions of the traditions comparatively and gives a clear picture of the Yamani and concludes t...

In Islam, tradition has a special place for it is the second source of understanding religion after the holy Quran. Muslim scholars use their best endeavours to keep and study traditions, and compose hundreds of books to recognize and understand the contents of traditions and their chains of transmission. Some of the narrations in the hadith sources do possess irregularity in texts or chain. Wh...