toury (1978:200) believes that translation is a kind of activity which inevitably involves at least two languages and two cultural traditions. being polite while asking for something takes place differently in different cultures and languages, therefore various strategies may be applied for making requests and also translation of them in order not to disturb or threaten the face or better to sa...

from its emergence till present time marxist principles has undergone great changes since their promulgation by marx. many theorists and thinkers set at rectifying marxist tenets and introducing those of their own while others advocated its main concepts and attempted at improving them. among marxist philosophers who had an intensive study of marxs ideology, is louis althusser whose reflections...

A text-based study on the systemic method in the verses of the reward of the Prophet's mission reveals that in the Qur'an the Imamate is mentioned as "zikrun li`l-alamin". It is possible to combine the verses of the Imamate with the use of the Qur'anic tradition, the reconciliation of the Qur'an and the itrat, and the existence of the last Imam beside the Qur'an. In the Quranic verses, the word...

The story of Joseph in the Holy Quran is an adequate context for mystic interpretation and anecdotes. In this story, man’s deepest emotions such as love, hatred, ambition, enmity, etc have been represented. Sometimes, events in this story go beyond what they explicitly state, which has been an asset for Sufis and other scholars. Meybodi, the author of most Well-known interpretation work on Sufi...

Mowlānā’s poetry is significantly different from Persian poetic traditions and the works of other poets. His works convey complex and wonderful meanings specially when they address the experience of disappearance and unawareness. This experience, together with the experience of a revelational context in the opening of speeches in Mowlānā’s Diwān, makes some of his dramatizations extremely wonde...

one of the most important number sequences in mathematics is fibonacci sequence. fibonacci sequence except for mathematics is applied to other branches of science such as physics and arts. in fact, between anesthetics and this sequence there exists a wonderful relation. fibonacci sequence has an importance characteristic which is the golden number. in this thesis, the golden number is observed ...

The present article, using a structural semiotic methodology, is to analyze Sanāyi's approach towards binary oppositions on the basis of his poetry. Henceforth, the binary oppositions prevalent in his poetry are analyzed according to two interdependent semiotic issues, that is, linguistic value and aligned network. This analysis reveals that there are three different perspectives in Sanāyi's l...