short story is one of the newborn literary genres that has drawn special attention of  literary men and researchers to itself in recent years because of its general effect on literature and its special influence on reader of a literary work. this article investigates short story comparatively in arabic and persian literature. the aim of this paper is to discover latent aspects of short story in...

the ḥadīth, “backbiting is more severe than adultery” (al-ghaybatu ashaddu min al-zinā), quoted from the apostle of allah (s.a.w.), by four of his companions: abū dhar al-ghifārī, abū sa‘īd al-khudrī, jābir b. ‘abd allāh al-anṣārī, and anas b. al-mālik is reported in the shī‘ī and sunnī sources – except for the kutub al-‘arba‘a and ṣiḥāḥ al-sitta. while analyzing and explaining the text of the ...

abd al-rah?m?n al-s??f? is a well-known astronomer who has some works in astronomy, mathematics and alchemy. the importance of his s?uwar al-kaw?kib (book about the constellations) caused that researchers don’t practice his other works. four treatises on astrolabe are ascribed to al-s??f?, any one of them is in persian. attribution of the three arabic treatises among these four to him is certai...