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...

The Quranic exegesis, Al-Dorr Al-Manthur written by Suyuti is one of the Sunni narrative exegeses that expresses narrations related to the verses without any comment. Suyuti has mentioned many narrations from the Prophet, the companions, followers, and their followers. He also mentions some narrations from Ali and other infallible Imams. Israelites and fabricated narrations in this exegesis, wh...

In spite of their eminent and expected conformity in attitudes and their obvious influence on each other, Shams Tabrizi and Jalal al-Din Rūmi are found to have some differences of opinions on several issues. These disagreements appear to be either overt or covert. Yet, the covert disagreements are assumed to be discoverable. Employing comparative method, the current study sought to extract...

this is an original study on the effect of a polyisobutylene – polydimethylsiloxane (pibpdms) block copolymer modifier used as an interfacial active agent on the dynamics behaviour of single newtonian drops suspended in a polyisobutylene (pib) newtonian matrix. the results were divided in two sections. the first part included the experiments carried out on the non-modified and 2% block cop...

The school of Tafkik (separation) argues that religious knowledge and human science, especially philosophy and mysticism, are two detached areas. This school has some views about the interpretation of Quran and the role of tradition on it which is required to be investigated and analyzed. Although this school refers to Ijtihadi approach as a legitimate method in interpretation, it rejects this ...

for several years, researchers in familiarity of efl teachers with post-method and its role in second and foreign language learners’ productions have pointed out that the opportunity to plan for a task generally develops language learners’ development (ellis, 2005). it is important to mention that the critical varies in language teaching was shown is the disappearances of the concept of method ...