kaiss al-kaiss**, zahra hakimzadeh*** exploring saadi’s literary character to gain insight of overall picture of arab literature in his work is not entirely realized when dealing only with his persian accomplishments, it is necessary to study his accomplishments in arabic poems alongside with his persian works to succeed in such venture. saadi has a variety of purpose in his usage of arabic lan...

During the past year the Museum's collection of Islamic art has been greatly enriched by several important purchases, gifts, and bequests. The bequest of twenty ceramics and two Persian rugs by Horace Havemeyer has already been discussed in a separate Bulletin article (May I957). One of the most notable additions was the Cora Timken Burnett Bequest of Persian miniatures and other art objects, w...

A survey of sibships containing a mongol was undertaken to determine the risk to the mother of bearing a second mongol. Opposing views have been expressed on the subject of familial incidence of mongolism. Benda (1947), Engler (1949) and 0ster (1953a, 1956) have all stated or implied that the risk of bearing a second mongol child is no greater than the general risk of having a mongol. On the ot...

There are many demonstrations of political interrelation of Turk kaganate and Mongol empire. The article deals with one of the points of Turk-Mongol interrelation as the ceremony of ascending the khan to the throne. It is historically proved that the ascending to the throne ceremony takes origin from Turk kaganate period by comparing the materials, concerning the facts of the history of both st...

We investigated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) at 87 sites of the phosphodiesterase 4D (PDE4D) gene in Mongol and Han patients with ischemic stroke in Inner Mongolia. SNPs in 226 patients with ischemic stroke (case group, 110 Mongol patients, 116 Han patients) and 220 patients without neurological disease (control group, 102 Mongol patients, 118 Han patients) were detected by polymerase ...