By studying "Kitab al-Ma'a" the enduring work by Abu Abdullah Muhammad Azdi, we find that this treatise is not just a medical encyclopedia based on medical prescriptions and the treatment of physical and mental diseases; rather, its admirable author, sometimes in the guise of a well-versed jurist, and a scholar of hadith, and a defender of the rights of the patient, created a work with  accumul...

In the present article, it is tried to show the way of transferring the Sunnites' traditions to Shi'ites' sources and its consequencesfrom a different and new angle. We believe one of the reasons of transferring the Sunnites' traditions to Shi'ites' books is the existence of some common narrators of hadith corpuses. By studying Je'aabi, oneof sheikhs of Saduq, and hadiths narrated from him in h...

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...

This article discusses Hojviri’s problems in classifying Sufis and compares his work with other texts. Hojvivi is ap parantly the first person to classify Sufis in to twelve groups in kash-al-Mahjoub. Before him, the common method of classification has been Tabaqat based on chronology, a method which has been in use since Rejal Hadith bools. Hojviri’s classification is seemingly based on his pe...

among precious and valuable collections devoted to iran national archives organization, those belong to the high clergy aqa seyyed mohammad kazem yazdi are like brightening brilliants which complete the lost historical chains.some records of this collection include the events of constitutional revolution, tendency or opposition of the religious characters about this movement.the text of rough d...

investigation the archetype of mother can help the reader to understand poes works, especially his fiction, better, if not fully. motivated by internal and external drives to get into the universe in its manifold form poe was impelled to art and, from various modes of art, to symbolism. how much was poe successful to produce works of art has been a matter of dispute among critics. however, ther...