ferdowsi, has beautifully described the important characters of shahnameh. with the help of psychological analysis, one can reach the hidden layers of their personality. this shows ferdowsi’s intelligence and his awareness in characterization. one of the negative and unaccepted characters of shahnameh is called shaghaad, who is rostam’s stepbrother. in his exact description of this character, f...

In recent decades, various theories and movements have been formed regarding women their role in human society, a number of experts sought to eliminate gender stereotypes arising from patriarchal culture. They identifying women. Among them is Clarissa Pincola Estes, who has taken an important step achieving dignity for with her theory creative the field classical Persian literature, despite dom...

Abstract The Zagros Mountains represent a strategic geographic region near the junction of Africa, Europe, and Asia, valleys within mountain range likely correspond to migration corridors used by archaic modern humans. Ghar-e Boof, key archeological site in southern Zagros, is located at an altitude 905 m.a.s.l. Dasht-e Rostam Fars Province, Iran. On basis lithic artifacts radiocarbon luminesce...

Türklerin geçmişten günümüze sahip oldukları dinî inançları, geniş bir coğrafyada varlık gösterirken karşılaştıkları toplulukların inançları ve kültürlerinden gelen unsurları harmanladıkları ortaya çıkardıkları mitolojik öğeler masallarda, efsanelerde, destanlarda kendini gösterir. Yazının henüz bulunmadığı dönemlerdeki sözlü edebiyat ürünleri arasında önemli yeri olan destanlar ulusların hayat...

bahman-nāme, a late 5th-century (a.h.) or early 6th-century (a.h.) epic poem, is one of those significant poems that used the shāh-nāme as a model. this story was composed by īrānshāh in four parts. the first part recounts the adventures of bahman, son of esfandīār, who, at the behest of rostam, marries katāyūn, the daughter of the king of kashmir. although generally this poem belongs to the ep...