the thought of leaving this world for the heavens, paradise and hell inspired by the holy prophet’s ascension appeared in the form of fictional stories in the arabic literature in the fifth century (solar calendar), i.e. in the late abbasid period, although the history of such journeys goes back to the time before islam. as it goes in pahlavi texts, the first one to have gone on oneiric journey...

â  â  â  the image of women in shoghi’s poetry â  â  zahra soleymanpour * â  jafar delshad ** â  â  â  abstract â  â  from a long time ago, describing the woman as well as love and mania has allocated a large part of poets’ poetry to itself. it could be said that there is almost no poet some of whose poems are not related to women. moreover, love and affection are in fact common senses amon...

nizar qabani, a great modern arab poet, is best known for his poetry on women and politics. however in his political poems there are some conspicuous realistic veins which reflect the special effects of geography, customs, religion, traditions, and thought across the arab world on realism as a literary school. the mission of arabic literature is to reflect the realities of arab societies, which...

description of the nature in arab literature of jáhilyya (bedouin) was a salient aspect of its artistic and rhetorical manner. moreover after muslems dispersion in other occupied territories, description of the landscapes suited more to the taste of arabs. though she'b bawwan (the vale of bawwán) has remained unknown in history and literature of iran, it has been more well-known and memorable i...

abd al - salam al-’ujayli is a syrian physician, literary man and novelist. by his specific style and personal method in expression and description, al-’ujayli is a link between leading authors of thirty and forty decades of twenty century on one hand, and innovators of fifty and sixty decades on the other hand. his literary works are a combination of abilities of these two generations. his sty...