Perspectives on Contemporary Society

Contemporary social historical perspectives on mental health reform.

Contemporary Sociopolitical Functions of the “Allahu Akbar” Ritual Speech Act in Today’s Muslim Communities: A Focus on the Iranian Society

As an Islamo-Arabic utterance,throughout the history of Islam, “Allahu Akbar” has been widely used as one of the most influential religious slogans since the advent of Islam in the 7th century CE. However, during the last four decades, it has gained a fairly global reputation thanks to various functions it has pragmatically come to serve in different social settings. Recentl...

1. A Study on the Sustainable Spirit of the Youth in the Poems of the Contemporary Female Poets

This article studies the sustainable spirit of the young people in the poems of the contemporary female poets in Iran, Such as Zhaleh Qaemmaghami, Parvin Ehtesami, Simin Behbahani and the like. The article also studies the perspectives of the above-mentioned poets through a research method called descriptive-analytical approach. After gathering the documentary data (referring to books and notes...

Classification of Iranian Contemporary Architecture, Based on Trends and Challenges

The use of demands such as "Iranian-Islamic architecture" or "preservation of Iranian-Islamic identities" appeared in different dimensions and have gradually caused the shape of contemporary Iranian architecture. Many criticisms have been made from various perspectives on the architectural conditions, despite, all of them are worthy of attention, it seems that a required issue has been neglecte...

Confrontation of Iranian Contemporary Architecture with Electronic era

Technology has had many influences on the Iranian society in different eras. Today, information and telecommunication technologies have revolutionized the basic structures of society and a new network society has been propagated inside the traditional and semi-modern context. In countries like Iran, which are in the process of modernization, a chaos deriving from the transition period is obs...

Personal perspectives in the life sciences for the Royal Society's 350th anniversary

2010 is the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society. The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, first published in 1665, while being a few years younger than the society itself, is still the oldest scientific journal printed in the English-speaking world and the world’s longest running scientific journal in continuous production. Our authors have included many of the most outstanding s...