purpose a metabolic abnormality such as obesity is a major obstacle in the maintenance of the human health system and causes various chronic diseases including type 2 diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, as well as various cancers. this study was designed to summarize the recent scientific knowledge regarding the anti-obesity role of curcumin (diferuloylmethane), which is isolated f...

There are some expressions and terms in the speeches of mystics which represent their world-view and recognition i.e. a kind of recognition which is a personal experience of every mystic. Because of asceticism and purification of his carnal soul, he is inspired and favored by God, and receives a spiritual state that cannot be put into words. Inevitably, he uses a symbolic language in order to c...

As one of the spiritual stations “Contentment” stands out. In view of its importance in the mystical journey, this study seeks to descriptively and analytically examine the spiritual station of contentment in al-Lumaʻ by Sarrāj Tūsī as the oldest work on mystical teachings, to criticize it on the basis of Imam Ali’s speech, and to understand how this work may be influenced by the Imam’s teachin...

in the area of automotive engineering there is a tendency to more electrification of power train. in this work control of an induction machine for the application of electric vehicle is investigated. through the changing operating point of the machine, adapting the rotor magnetization current seems to be useful to increase the machines efficiency. in the literature there are many approaches wh...

     Obaid Zakani's teachings in The Ethics of the Nobility originated from a wide range of knowledge such as literary, historical works, interpretations of the Qur'an and mystical texts, moral books and philosophical works. And Obied in formulating the ethics of “Obsolete religion” and “Religion of Mokhtar”, has freely used them in the composition of his Ethics of the Nobility. Sometimes he ha...

Dream is one of the issues which has a special status in mysticism and psychoanalysis and it can be the subject of interdisciplinary researches. Psychoanalysis has a vast domain with different branches among which Yung’s psychoanalysis is more compatible with oriental and Islamic mysticism. For Yung dream is very important and he mentions man’s unconscious as its origin. He thinks that someti...

Lavâyeh is one of the most famous Persian mystical texts. The treatise has been written following the example of Sheikh Ahmad Ghazzāli’s Savāneh. Devotion of ‘Eyn al-Qozāt of Hamadān to the author of Savāneh and relation of them with each other, and some other factors, caused that Lavāyeh be known by the name of ‘Eyn al-Qozāt’s, and even once has been published by his name in Iran. This untru...

writing an academic article requires the researchers to provide support for their works by learning how to cite the works of others. various studies regarding the analysis of citation in m.a theses have been done, while little work has been done on comparison of citations among elt scopus journal articles, and so the dearth of research in this area demands for further investigation into citatio...