The child's advocate in donor conceptions: the telling of the story.

نقش صوفیه در گسترش آیین‌های نقالی و روضه‌خوانی

The present study attempts to investigate the role of Sufism in development of story-telling, naqqāli (narrating of important old Iranian stories) and Rawzahkhāni (telling story of mourning for Imams) arranged in three sections. The first part of the article is intended to inspect story-telling as a social practice of Sufism. It also expresses the reasons behind Safavid Scholars’ opposition wit...

The Method of Story-Telling in Ethical Education in the View of Shahid Motahhari

Morteza Motahari is one of those speaking on ethics in contemporary Iran. In addition to his extensive theoretical efforts for the theoretical foundations of the Islamic Movement, writing simple works for the public, he tried to promote certain moral values. If his moral reformist minds were to be recognized, it would be necessary to study the same series of his works, since they indicate the m...

Editor's Note/Man, the Story-Telling Animal

بطن اول مثنوی، هنر داستان پردازی مولوی

The use of fiction for expressing mystical meanings has started with Sanaee, and reached its climax with with Mowlavi’s Mathnavi. On one hand, Mowlavi follows the holy Quran in telling stories, and focuses on one story in different places and situations. Because of this, like the holy Quran, Mathnavi has several layers which starts from the first layer, and while telling the story, displays the...

Is the child victim of sexual abuse telling the truth?

In order to adequately investigate an allegation of sexual abuse, professionals must both understand the motives of the victim, perpetrator, and victim's mother (in incest cases) to lie or tell the truth and possess the techniques for examining the child's story. Children almost never make up stories about being sexually abused. In fact victims are often revictimized in multiple ways for truthf...