The Middle Persian word sahrestān had often been translated as ‘provincial capital’. Cereti examines an impressive corpus of texts belonging to the Zoroastrian tradition, such Sahrenstānīhā-ī-Ērānshar, Bundahisn, Dēnkard, Kārnāmag ī Ardaxsīr Pābagān, Gujastag Abālis, Sāyast nē-Sāyast, Yoist Friyān, Pahlavi commentary Widēwdād, inscriptions Sāpūr I and Kerdīr at Ka’aba-e Zartost Narseh’s one Pai...

al-adab al-saghīr has been translated from pahlavi, and can be regarded as the crossroads of the iranian and islamic cultures. ibn-e moqafa’a, like other translators of pahlavi texts, translated texts which were in line with islamic thoughts from pahlavi to arabic. this was warmly welcomed in the arab world, but they were gradually intertwined with arabic thoughts and the iranian roots were for...

the script and orthography system which are used for the zoroastrian middle persian (= pahlavi) texts because of their many shortcomings and difficulties have always caused many misunderstandings and misinterpretations by the ancient users and modern researchers. this indeterminacy of the script and the lack of a complete and accurate understanding of the contents of the texts have caused the p...

As a close ally of Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, Israel participated in the September 1974 Asian Games – ‘Asian Olympics’ that were held Tehran. Among 18 sports which athletes competed, football attracted most attention, especially after Iran’s historic victory over AFC Cup 1968. both countries reached final Games’ tournament, match came to be seen by Iranians as nothing short war. Standing stark...

The rapidly growing world energy use has already raised concerns over energy resources and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Since the global contribution from residential buildings towards energy consumption, has steadily increased between 20% and 40% and as large openings have considerable energy and heat loss in dwellings, this paper establishes a coefficient of heat loss and air infiltration ...

one of the most popular genres of tv series in iran is the historical genre. especially, popular is the contemporary era depicted in the tv series in which their stories illustrate the ending of qajar dynasty and the beginning of pahlavi dynasty. audiences’ acclamation in watching tv series such as, hezar dastan, kife englisi (english bag), shabe dahom, (the tenth night) and madar-e sefr daraje...

Abstract In the 1960s and 1970s, Iranian officials embraced natural gas as a new energy source for their rapidly industrializing society, seeing it readily available substitute lucrative oil products country's citizens were consuming in increasing amounts. Reacting to growing concentrations of smoke haze cities, unable alter mountainous terrain semiarid climate that intensified them, seemingly ...