it seems that a great number of abstract religious concepts in islamic texts are realized, both conceptually and linguistically, through cognitive strategies like metaphor and metonymy. this article tries to study the concept of death in the holy qurۥān, and nahjul-balāgha, the main islamic texts, to see how this (relatively) abstract concept is conceptualized in mind? moreover, what component ...

due to its specific characteristics, special theoretical principles are involved in translation of religious text. the texts of this genre are classified into two categories of divine and non-divine each with its own considerations in the act of translation. nahj-al-balaghah is one of the non-divine islamic texts. two of the well-known translations of it into persian are those by seyed jafar sh...

eyfa’e dein (oath of allegiance) is a general and human issue. it is mentioned in nahj al-balagha. in a famous letter, imam ali to malik al-ashtar warns: “in yours covenant with people, do not try to act according to your interests and break it selfishly”. then hazrat refers to the general and humane aspects of covenant and its importance in survival of humanity and the role of oath of allegian...

the purpose of the present paper is to survey and analyse the concept and significance of religious tolerance and universal brotherhood in imam ali’s teachings, especially his nahj al balagha. islam admits the freedom of thought, free expression of opinions, and exercise of independent judgment in religious matters. it also acknowledges tolerance among religions, religious communities, nations ...

divine names and attributes have a great bearing on the relationship between man and god in respects such as belief in and supplication to him. the semantic dimension of this issue has been the focus of attention in the philosophy of religion. this aspect of divine names and attributes is concerned with questions as to how to discuss god’s names and how these names relate to man’s attributes. i...

This paper begins a series studying D-modules on the Feigin-Frenkel semi-infinite flag variety from the perspective of the Beilinson-Drinfeld factorization (or chiral) theory. Here we calculate Whittaker-twisted cohomology groups of Zastava spaces, which are certain finite-dimensional subvarieties of the affine Grassmannian. We show that such cohomology groups realize the nilradical of a Borel ...

Ammar Al-Chalabi, Peter M. Andersen, Siddharthan Chandran, Adriano Chio, Philippe Corcia, Philippe Couratier, Olof Danielsson, Mamede de Carvalho, Claude Desnuelle, Torsten Grehl, Julian Grosskreutz, Trygve Holmøy, Caroline Ingre, Merete Karlsborg, Grethe Kleveland, Jan Christoph Koch, Blaz Koritnik, Magdalena KuzmaKozakiewicz, Hannu Laaksovirta, Albert Ludolph, Christopher McDermott, Thomas Me...

Structures of new antifungal antibiotics, benanomicins A and B were determined to be N-[[5-[6-deoxy-3-O-(beta-D-xylopyranosyl)-beta-D-galactopyranosyloxy+ ++ ]-5, 6-dihydro-1,6,9,14-tetrahydroxy-11-methoxy-3-methyl-8,13-dioxobenzo++ + [a]naphthacen-2-yl]carbonyl]-D-alanine and N-[[5-[4-amino-4,6-dideoxy-3-O-(beta-D-xylopyranosyl)-beta-D- galactopyranosyloxy]-5,6-dihydro-1,6,9,14-tetrahydroxy-...