shahnameh and the history of bal’ami are great and important literary works in iranian culture. these two works have many similarities and embody the history of iran from its beginning up to the authors’ time. the researches show that the sources and references that ferdowsi and bal’ami consulted were different. ferdowsi consulted the prose shahnameh of abou mansouri and the oral narratives; wh...

it is now generally accepted that the rise of the genre of novel required a kind of worldview as well as a philosophical theory of man which had not been in existence until recent centuries, after severe changes which resulted into modern civilization. novel and realistic novel in particular, is a genre dealing with individual man and his possibilities in facing with problems and issues of the ...

The present study sought to explore the impact of story maps and audio podcasts as scaffolds on oral proficiency of Iranian EFL learners. The quasi-experimental study was launched with 36 EFL undergraduates in three groups by adopting a counterbalanced 3  3 Latin squared design. All participants were indiscriminately, but in a specified order, exposed to the three treatment conditions of story ...

mowlavi`s mathnavi is such a mysterious and boundless sea that it is full of pure conceptions. it has been composed to emanate the desired life for creation of an ideal human. it is boundless, because it is full of pure gnostic, philosophical and kalami arguments, as well as social conceptions. it is mysterious, because from every perspective it shows off a unique aspect. being mysterious is no...

rooster`s eye has been used a lot in shahnameh and other contexts. poets and authors, following their ancestors, have talked about it as a symbol of beautification, purity, and redness however rooster`s eye doesn’t have any of these features, nor are these features important enough to be noticed by poets. researchers have mentioned some opinions to match these features with rooster`s eye, and...