This paper attempts to study the influence of Islamic mystical love as reflected in Sawāneh-al-Oshshāq (Aphorisms in Love) by the 11/12th century Sufi author, Ahmad Al-Ghazzāli on Christian mystical love as reflected in The Book of the Lover and the Beloved, a famous treatise on love in the Middle Ages, by the 13th century Catalan priest and writer, Ramon Llull. Llull in one of his works p...

the present study reports an analysis of response articles in four different disciplines in the social sciences, i.e., linguistics, english for specific purposes (esp), accounting, and psychology. the study has three phases: micro analysis, macro analysis, and e-mail interview. the results of the micro analysis indicate that a three-level linguistic pattern is used by the writers in order to cr...

The right to practice religion is one of the fundamental issues in the present age. The interpretation of some verses, especially the holy verse "La Akrah fi al-Din ..." leads us to believe that from the perspective of the Holy Quran, the right to practice religion is one of the basic human rights. The present study showed that God did not deny the acceptance of religion and created man for fr...

abstract: advertisements are the most accessible type of authentic materials, and this is one reason why they are used more and more in english teaching classes. for this cause, studies in the field of advertisements are very widespread nowadays. for pun is one aspect which makes advertisements more interesting, it is used more than before in advertisements. use of puns makes an advertisement m...