explaining the virtues, merits and manāqib (praiseworthy actions) of imam ali (a.s) is not a task exclusive to his followers and adherents (namely the shi’a), but rather the scholars of the four sunni schools of law have extensively recounted the imam’s virtues, merits and manāqib, because of the high status of this matchless personality of the muslim world and due to their love and devotion to...

Islamic and Iranian cities, both, East and West, know the physical monuments of Islamic culture1 based on one of the features of the Islamic cities. Meanwhile, other religious centers, including Tkaya, Hosseiniyeh and hospice is not the case to considerate, while these elements cause to shape group behavior, strengthen social ties and strengthening of cultural integration, have always played a ...

theoratical and practical return to islamic heritage is a developing instrument of the new thoughts and approaches in muslem intellectuals. of cours. the basis of this incredble heritage can be found in behavour of the inevrables particularly imam ali which has been demonstrated in nahjolballagheh: a proper conceptualization of alavi government. imam ali`s governmental experiences is a perfect ...

In Early Modern Persian prose and verse, verbs with a present stem accompanied by grapheme "-y" have been used to express modal concepts of imperative and command or invocation and request. Researchers, regardless of the historical changes of Early Modern Persian, believe that this structure of  subjunctive 2nd person singular has been used to express imperative mood, and that &q...

the history of islam has abounded with different kinds of fetna (literary, sedition) and experienced the diverse seditious movements for many centuries. in nahjulbalagha, imam ali (pbuh) tried to shed light on the dark sides of fetna and its kinds. in the present paper, imam ali’s clear-cut description and the close illustration of fetna, its formation and consequences, and imam ali’s solutions...