Besides many Qur’anic verses, there are many traditions in Shii and Sunni sources about mother and her invaluable position. One of the most famous traditions which is attributed to the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him and his household, is “Paradise is underneath the feet of mothers.” This article attempts to have a look at the documents and the text of this narration. It...

The purpose of this research is to identify effective criteria for measuring competitive position of certain products of Shahdiran company, a regional major food and juice producer in Iran. To determine the criteria and their relative importance, Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) was used by organizing a decision team consisting of 6 top managers of the company. Four major competitors (based o...

the present study was an attempt to compare the effect of peer metalinguistic corrective feedback on elementary and intermediate efl learners speaking ability to see which level benefits more from this type of feedback. to this end, 117 female efl learners at grade 3, al-zahra high school in kermanshah, iran were non-randomly chosen. the homogeneity of the participants was attained through a pi...

Al-Mu`ayyed Billah Alavi was from Hasani Sadat of Dilam who rebelled against the local governor of Roodsar; a governor that was dependent on Ale Booye and to those remained from Alavi Thaeri family. For illegitimacy of the rulers and the people`s discontent and some characteristic qualities of Al-Mu`ayyed Billah, he won and caused a development in political power from the east of Gilan, Roodsar...

The crown prince position was one of the most influential institutions in the Abbasid caliphate system. In the second period of the Abbasids (232-334 AH), unlike the first period (132-232 AH) when the heirs to the throne were largely independent, the magnitude of influence of this institution on increasing the power of caliphate was lost. Findings of the present research, which uses a descripti...

One of the methods for Quranic commentary is nowadays regarded as Quran to Quran commentary method. The method is originally known to be that of the Prophet and Immams when commenting holey Quran. The study includes a brief comparison between Al-Tafsir ul-Qurani lil-Quran and Al-Mizan fi tafsir al-Quran respectively by Abdolkarim Khatib and Mohammadhosein Tabatabaie. As the commentators have us...

Many well-known traditions reported by the elite and the public is that al-Mahdi will come on Friday. However, there are some other traditions which clearly indicate that the Imam’s comingwill be on Saturday. The question is that which of these two groups of traditions are more valid. This article shows that although Friday is most known to be the day of the coming of the Imam, evidence s...