at early period of ghobad’s reign, sassanid king (486-531ad), an important movement occurred, headed by mazdak, for several social, economic and political reasons so that the king supported it in order to weaken the position of great figures and clergymen as well. naturally, important people opposed the given movement and dethroned ghobad king from power and he managed to resume his reign again...

Dynamic X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) is an attractive imaging technology for the guidance in minimal invasive surgery. In this field, projection data simulation is an important tool to optimise scanner geometry and to validate reconstruction algorithms. A realistic simulation software, called “Sindbad” has been developed to compute 2D projections. It is based on an analytical model and allows...

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...

The Yamama Formation represents a part of the Late Berriasian-Aptian sequence, deposited during Early Cretaceous period within main shallow marine depositional environment. studied area covers three oil fields; Sindbad field, Halfaya and Ad'daimah located in southeastern Iraq. Six major microfacies were recognized succession represented by to determine recognize paleoenvironments. These are; Pe...

“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...