utopian literature, in terms of content, includes the dream of a world with better and ideal conditions or an image of favorable and yet abstract (nowhere) world. based on a single main motivation, nostalgia and the desire to return to eternal origin and due to the intellectual paradigms form them, this genre has formed certain structures. from the perspective of realizing the origin and having...

any philosophical poet has a utopia. jamil sidqi al-zahawi was a philosophical poet, who analyzed phenomena of the universe from a philosophical perspective. he played a great role in awakening and motivating the nation and in developing in them the need for a better life. his intention was to promotecertain humanistic values in the society with his poems, and he therefore set out to build foun...

mosques, as symbol of islamic architecture must play an important role in reflecting the superiority of allah the almighty. there are many ways in making it successful and one of them is through the high quality of aesthetic value. aesthetic value in islamic art and architecture is normally portrayed by the highest degree of motifs and ornamentation. contemporary mosque designers normally focus...

the analysis of city as an approach in reading has drawn a  lot of attention from the end of nineteenth century till present time and the concept of city, real or imaginary, utopia or  promise land has been one of  the most significant frameworks for narrative techniques. the present research attempts to introduce george wells' theories concerning utopia, and apply them to analyze suhayl i...

Utopian thoughts have precedence as old as human history. Islamic civilization utopian thought owes its progress to the Farabi&rsquos utopian concept and expansion and academic study of utopian term in west owes to the Thomas More Utopia book. Theoretically, Farabi&rsquos utopian thoughts influenced development of utopian system in both Islam and Western civilizations. By emphasis on Farabi&rsq...