inscriptions in calligraphy, hard stone carving and rock reliefs have a long tradition in iranian art. although from the pre-islamic times many important samples of three dimensional sculptures have been found in iran, during the islamic era, because of the religious edicts and beliefs, that they had the sculpting prohibited, the art of sculpture couldn’t be developed in the way of pre-islamic ...

calligraphy, as a prominent art incorporated into persian and islamic architecture, supplys messages and brings beauty to the eyes of the beholder. the most important messages in architecture are directly expressed by inscriptions. different types of inscriptions are shaped in the form of mosaic works, multiple painted patterns, tiles, bricks or plaster techniques. although in qajar period trad...

khānsār was one of the principal cities of isfahan district in qajar era. the city is mentioned repeatedly in historical texts and visited frequently by european travelers khānsār was celebrated in qajar era for presence of significant cultural and artistic figures in the city as well as production of various commercial products. the remnants of commercial monuments such as qajar bazar or kārva...

This experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of olive leaf (OL) on immune response and some blood metabolites of broiler chickens. A total of 400 one-day-old broiler chicks (male and female) were randomly assigned to 5 experimental treatments with 4 replicates of 20 birds each. Birds of different treatments were given diets containing 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75 and 1% OL powder from 14 to 4...

The ENVISAT ASAR (Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar) AP (Alternating Polarisation) mode provides a new opportunity for spaceborne monitoring of vessel traffic and fishing activities. A series of data has been collected and analysed over Canadian and Norwegian waters, as well as other locations of opportunity. Three vessels were imaged during a Canadian trial and an oil production vessel in the ...

fifty-four specimens of the kingsoldier bream, argyrops spinifer (forsskal, 1775) from coastal waters of the persian gulf, in bushehr province, were aged by otolith readings to assess the suitability of using otolith length/weight for age estimation in this fish. otolith length and weight increased along with an increase in length and age of the fish. the relationship between fish length (tl) a...

as mystics make relationships to god in different ways, they consider different aspects of his (god) characters. in this article, it is tried to verify distinct ways of mystics, relation to allah according to their conscience sentience (receipt) of gods traits (specifications). the main purpose of this article is surveying mystics’s relations and their inference to allah based on holly quran an...

ketab-ol-ein, which was written by ahmad farahidi, is one of the oldest dictionaries that exist today. in the preliminary discussion we mentioned that, although historical sources show that the work of ibn abbas looks like a dictionary, it is becoming accepted that ketab-ol-ein is the first dictionary. the article starts with explanations about the life and work of khalilibn ahmad. we have also...