What title one can give to Pierre Bourdieu? Sociologist, theorist, activist, structuralist, functionalist, conservative and Such classifications rather than illuminating the dimensions of the scientific personality and the content of his research findings, hide most of them. The fact is that Bourdieu has tried to act as a dialectical relation of opinion and action. He, by criticizing the "hegem...

with the growth of more humanistic approaches towards teaching foreign languages, more emphasis has been put on learners’ feelings, emotions and individual differences. one of the issues in teaching and learning english as a foreign language is demotivation. the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the components of language learning strategies, optimism, duration o...

Story is one of the best and most accessible ways which Qur'an uses for conveying the concepts and explaining its religious teachings. Quranic stories are considered as narrations a large proportion of which is devoted to the lives of the prophets. As character is one of the main elements of a narrative and also, since after Moses, the prophet Ibrahim is the most frequent character in Quranic s...

Scientific personality of Ibn al-Walid and his effect on succeeding scholars indicate of his prominent status and imply researchers’ need to overview and investigate his points of view. The present article is an introduction of Muhammad Ibn al-Hasan Ibn al-Walid and his works and a report of his perspectives in different issues. Employing a library method and descriptive-analytic approach, the ...

The approach of personalized medicine has received a great deal of attention over the last century, emphasizing attention to the patient rather than the disease. Personalized medicine tries to plan the patient's condition and treatment method by considering the culture, personal preferences and experiences and health beliefs of the person as well as the values and lifestyle of the person, and e...