this thesis aims at putting together two of the vestest areas of study there is in humanities: bioethics and literature. the two novels in question, oryx and crake and the year of the flood, are considered as some of the most succssful examples of spculative fiction. in these novels the biological and environmental issues raised as looked at from a bioethics point of view.

as some definitions show, idioms are expressions whose meanings cannot be obtained from individual words. in every society, people use their own conceptions and feelings through different idioms and expressions. so every culture and society has their own idioms. some scholars proposed methods for translating idioms but baker’s strategies are very important and constructive. this research tried ...

this thesis deals essentially (but not from all aspects) with the extension of the notion of semigroup compactification and the construction of a general theory of semitopological nonaffine (affine) transformation semigroup compactifications. it determines those compactification which are universal with respect to some algebric or topological properties. as an application of the theory, it is i...

There is a few mystical works in Persian literature, the authors of which have mentioned into them the foundations of mysticism definitely. These terms can be inferred from mystical and sūfical works: “purification, devotion, mystical experience, annihilation, conservation of essence, mystical behaviour, rapture, love, poverty, mystical state, unity of existence, knowledge, Sheykh guidance, ...

august wilson is undoubtedly one of the rare black playwrights whose works have attracted streams of attention and worldwide audience. the present study aims at analyzing fences and piano lesson which are two of the most successful plays in his pittsburgh cycle from the perspective of michel foucault’s theories and ideas. studying these two plays from foucault’s perspective opens new windows in...

Some individuals mentioned in thirteenth section of Tusi’s Al-Rijal. In the thirteenth section of his work, Al-Rijal , under the title of “man lam yarwi ‘anhum’ ” (Those who didn’t qoute from Imams), Tusi has quoted from many individuals who apparently didn’t declare traditions from Shiite Imams. This is while some of their traditions in the Shiite Hadith collections are directly recited from ...