Background: Folk beliefs include myths, stories, poems, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs about luck and sore eyes, mother lullabies, indigenous carols, mirrors, rituals and traditions, and are always full of spirit. With tyranny and blackness and perseverance against oppression. The themes in the folk poems of Khuzestan about the war express the background of oral literatur...

The chapter on the ravī (the last ‘letter’ of rhyme), from work al-Muʿğam fī maʿāyīr ašʿār al-ʿağam by Šams-i Qays (13th century), is deemed earliest and more prestigious extant text describing rules concerning rhyme ( qāfiya ) in Persian verses. It focuses identification pivotal rhyming letter ), that segment word, around which a poem built. In discussing this topic, touches linguistic issues ...

turkish words in the texts of persian language and literature show the deep and long relations between two languages. and because the diwan-e-hafiz (hafiz’s complete works), in which the persian lyric poetry achieves its most flourishing perfection, is not an exception, some of its 35 turkish words are going to be surveyed to determine their morphophonemic in this paper. hoping to be considered...

Abstract This article examines twentieth-century Persian translations of Urdu-language works about literature, focusing on two different an influential work literary history, Shiʿr al-ʿAjam ( Poetry the Persians ), by Shibli Nuʿmani. The offers a close, comparative reading Afghan and Iranian in order to understand why this voluminous text were published within such short time period. These reve...

In offering a brief sketch of some aspects of Herodotus’ use of lyric poetry I shall restrict myself to melic poetry. I shall start with explicit allusions, and then turn to some passages for which Herodotus’ source must have been lyric poetry, and indeed rather grand lyric poetry, though he conceals this. We learn something about his principles and methodology, but also about the diffusion of ...

geographical location and climatic condition in the northern coast of persian gulf provided a suitable condition for the spread of epidemic diseases and their continuity. in qajar period, increased relations with india, mesopotamia and lack of health facilities caused the death of many residents in these areas. at the beginning of reza shah’s reign and the government’s attitude towards moderniz...

This study compared eye movements during the reading of authentic prose and poetry with and without enjambment presented in their original layout and in a manipulated layout. We hypothesised that we would find differences in reading patterns on the basis of the layout in which the text was presented. We indeed found differences in reading pattern between prose and poetry, poetry with and withou...

Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome are disorders that often occur simultaneously and are characterized by widespread pain and persistent fatigue. The patients are associated with disability and impairment social and physical functions. There are many remedies in traditional Persian medicine suggested for management of the disease complaints. The aim of this study was to investigate the c...