there is no reference to the word “karimān” in garshaāp story in the avesta, pahlavi and persian zoroastrian texts. however, it can be found in the story of “rostam and sohrāb”, and “rostam and esfandiār” in the shāh-nāmeh. since the epic texts in other iranian languages are significant in shāh-nāmeh studies, the haft-lashkar manuscript and other texts in the gurani language are worth consideri...

in this investigation, the mercury content of different samples of persian gulf shrimp and fish, caspian sea fish and the samples of fish from bandar pahlavi lagoon, zarjoub river near rasht, zayandehroud river near esfahan, and karadj river near tehran were measured by flameless atomic absorption, cold vapor-technique, using standard addition method. the main purpose of this study was to inves...

the authors of this article aim to compare character types in persian oral folktales and hans christian andersen’s fairytales. for a better clarification of this topic, the authors address issues such as morality, character’s will, and the portrayal of women in these stories. this paper comes to the following conclusions: first, both the content and the characters in hans christian andersen’s t...

several factors influenced on the presence of women in the pahlavi era. in the new structures after the constitutionalism and along with modernism of pahlavi, court became to the government and political figures changed to the people. in this era, the role of women in sexual approach, their changed from a class-in-itself to class-for-itself. the outgrowth of social backdrops caused that we can ...

The osmosis between Iranian exile, Oriental repertoires, and the commodification of nostalgia in film contemporary1 culture alludes to Disney reproduction East that is capitalized by Hollywood’s invisible hand. Orientalist logic via old civilization Achaemenid grandeur conveyed Hamid Naficy’s (1991) reference Edward Said’s (1978) ‘imaginary2 geography’—the inventive tool narration augments tale...

This article deciphers and analyzes a  previously unknown Sassanian mint location represented by the inscription WLČ., based on the analysis of a Middle Persian inscription found in Persepolis, and on the linguistic changes that occurred during the transition to modern Persian. Evidence is presented to show that this previously unknown Sassanian mint designation corresponds to the modern-day ci...