In the study of Ismailism, an important role was played by discovery and subsequent in late 19th early 20th centuries handwritten sources containing doctrinal Ismaili texts. Turning to these put this area Islam on a scientific basis for first time. The poem (masnavi) Nasir-i Khusrav “The Book Enlightenment” (Rawšanā'ī - nameh) belongs very texts kind. This article includes annotated translation...

3 The distinction between forecast quality and economic value in a cost-loss 4 formulation is well known. Also well-known is their complex relationship, even 5 with some instances of a reversal between the two, where higher quality is 6 associated with lower economic value, and vice versa. It is reasonable to expect 7 such counter-intuitive results when forecast quality and economic value both,...

It is well-known that varying model parameters in a NWP model can affect multiple forecast parameters; but exactly how, is difficult to assess. The difficulty arises because of the nonlinearities and interactions inherent in the model. In other words, a change in a single model parameter can affect a number of forecast parameters, and the affect itself depends on the values of all the other mod...

“ibn-e hisam-khosfi” is a poet of ninth hijra century who composed “khavar-nameh” in describing imam ali (a.s) and his followers’ braveries and battles as approach and style of ferdousy’s shahname. in this rhymed piece, he did not only consider expressing the story sufficient but also made an effort to publish the religious and moral concepts and utilized a lot from quran to express these conce...

banugoshasb-nameh is a national epic poem written in imitation of ferdowsi's shahnameh about banugoshasb's life and courage, daughter of rostam. the poem, the only epic in persian literature is the central story of a heroic woman. most researchers, who have studied this poem, have focused on the presence of banugushasb in the context of epic and her heroism. they sometimes related her...