Research Paper
The Characteristics of a Mystic Politician in the View of Early Sufis
The Characteristics of a Mystic Politician in the View of Early Sufis

Manuchehr Akbari; Mahdi Heidari

Volume 3, Issue 2 , March 2014, Pages 1-18

Abstract
  Muslim mystics have turned to political issues relying on both unity and plurality criteria.  They have explained the characteristics of a mystic politician emphasizing the necessity ...  Read More
Research Paper
Ending Styles in Mathnawi Stories
Ending Styles in Mathnawi Stories

Ali Muhammadi; Arezoo Baharvand

Volume 3, Issue 2 , March 2014, Pages 19-37

Abstract
  Story-ending is one of the elements which have led to a new approach to the literary criticism. Mowlānā’s art of storytelling is really a unique one. The narrative techniques ...  Read More
Fereydūn’s Bull-Headed Mace and its Origin
Fereydūn’s Bull-Headed Mace and its Origin

Mahmud Jaa’fari Dehaqi; Majid Pourahmad

Volume 3, Issue 2 , March 2014, Pages 39-57

Abstract
  This paper wants to investigate why Fereydūn’s mace was bull-headed. Since such weapon has a prominent role in our epics and it has been used by most of our heroes, it seems ...  Read More
Research Paper
Storytelling in the Sonnets of Shams
Storytelling in the Sonnets of Shams

Davood Esparham; Somayyeh Asadi

Volume 3, Issue 2 , March 2014, Pages 59-76

Abstract
  Mowlavi’s sonnets have been repeatedly and from different points of views analyzed by several famed literary characters. Considering the structure and features of sonnet, as a ...  Read More
Research Paper
Prophets in the Iranian Long Folk Stories
Prophets in the Iranian Long Folk Stories

Hasan Zolfaghari; Bahador Bagheri

Volume 3, Issue 2 , March 2014, Pages 77-94

Abstract
  Of the most outstanding features of Iranian folk stories, which had not been precisely scrutinized, are their meaningful deep links with the archetypes in the stories of the prophets, ...  Read More
Research Paper
Social Romanticism in the Poetry of Parvin E'tesami
Social Romanticism in the Poetry of Parvin E'tesami

qodsiye rezvaniyan; maryam mamodi

Volume 3, Issue 2 , March 2014, Pages 95-114

Abstract
  Parvin E'tesami is one of the famous outstanding Persian poets of the constitutional era and also the reign of Pahlavi I who composed her poems based on Persian classical literature ...  Read More
Research Paper
Simli Structure in Khosrow and Shirin, and Veis and Ramin
Simli Structure in Khosrow and Shirin, and Veis and Ramin

rohola hadi; zeinab nasiri

Volume 3, Issue 2 , March 2014, Pages 115-131

Abstract
  Simile is the most important principle of rhetorical figures that other principles such as metaphor, metonymyandallusion are caused by it. In this study, different types of imagery ...  Read More
Research Paper
The comprehension of literary texts in 8-12 years old Children
The comprehension of literary texts in 8-12 years old Children

mostefa musavi; mona sifi

Volume 3, Issue 2 , March 2014, Pages 133-152

Abstract
  Many students are being faced to some problems in instructive skills such as Reading and Comprehension especially when they study literary texts, [1]both in school and university. To ...  Read More
Research Paper
The structural Consideration of Character in Nizami’s Haft-Peykar
The structural Consideration of Character in Nizami’s Haft-Peykar

Ali Afzali; Ghodrat Ghasemipour

Volume 3, Issue 2 , March 2014, Pages 153-171

Abstract
  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 ...  Read More
Research Paper
An Introduction to Iranian Intellectual Movement, Emphasizing Contemporary Narrative Literature
An Introduction to Iranian Intellectual Movement, Emphasizing Contemporary Narrative Literature

Shirzad Tayefi

Volume 3, Issue 2 , March 2014, Pages 173-191

Abstract
  The historical awareness of Iranian Intellectuals reached its peak by the constitutional revolution and began a new trend of life. The Literary genre was one of the fields on which ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Esoteric Interpretation of Sheikhs’ Words in Hojwiri’s Kashf al-Mahjoub
The Esoteric Interpretation of Sheikhs’ Words in Hojwiri’s Kashf al-Mahjoub

Roghayeh Bayram Haghighi

Volume 3, Issue 2 , March 2014, Pages 193-209

Abstract
  Kashf al-Mahjoub is the first Persian independent mystical text, written by Abu al-Hasan Ali bin Osman Al-Jolabi Al-Hojwiri Al-Qaznavi which contains valuable information about different ...  Read More
Research Paper
A Comparative Study of the Nnarrative in Hedayat’s Boofe Koor and Maroofi’s Paykare Farhad
A Comparative Study of the Nnarrative in Hedayat’s Boofe Koor and Maroofi’s Paykare Farhad

Aliasghar Eskandari; Sadegh Javadi

Volume 3, Issue 2 , March 2014, Pages 211-229

Abstract
  Narrative has being existed in many different forms through communities in all places and all times. It began with human history, and there has been no nation with any narrative. Narrative ...  Read More