the persian literature, whether verse or prose, is filled with the ethic, moral, mystical, and educational concepts and ideas. among the great poets, sa' di has a specific approach toward these supreme notions. one may notice many moral and educational concepts and attitudes in the 7th & 8th chapters in his golestan. in this research, it has been tried to survey the various factors and gro...

the aim of my argument (1) is to reconceptualise what is now called religious studies as the study of institutionalised values, and the relation between values and the legitimation of power in a specific society. though i do not talk much about power here, it is always a fundamental issue in the study of specific social groups.the first assumption which i make in this paper is that the way anal...