this thesis is based upon the works of samuel beckett. one of the greatest writers of contemporary literature. here, i have tried to focus on one of the main themes in becketts works: the search for the real "me" or the real self, which is not only a problem to be solved for beckett man but also for each of us. i have tried to show becketts techniques in approaching this unattainable goal, base...

Many narrations have been reported in the writings of the Shiites and Sunnis on the beginning and motivations of creation by Allah. In some of these narrations the motivation of creation is defined as the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him and his household. One of these narrations is a statement of such a fame which has been quoted in different Islamic sciences and countless exegetic, juris...

The well-known hadith of the two weighty sources related from the Prophet, peace be upon him and his household, has been always the focus of the attention of the Muslims and the interpretation of the Shiite and Sunni scholars and theologians and has been narrated in different forms. In this research on the basis of the chain of narration of the traditions some expressions of this hadith, which ...

The question of the validity of the book We Have Sent It Down on the Night of Ordainmentby HasanIbn Abbās Ibn Harish al-Razi is the point of disagreement among the traditionists of the two schools of tradition of Qom and Baghdād. The traditionists of Qom such as Saffar, Koleini and Sheikh al-Sadoq have accepted the validity of the book and have reported its hadiths among their hadith sources un...

  This paper has studied orientalists’ arguments for Prophet’s awareness of reading and writing. Their claim has been founded on two historical narrations. As narrated, the Prophet has written the words Mohammad ibn a’bdollah down at the time of Hodaibiyah and at the end of his life he ordered the people around him to bring pen and paper to write some advices for them.  Considering the Prophe...