the research entitled “a comparative study of saadi’s golestan and samuel johnson’s rasselas” is based on the inclination of 18th century writer and theorist johnson on towards rich persian literature and outstanding resemblance of golestan and rassales from the structural, moral, philosophical points of view. the findings are based on two hypotheses: (1) has there been any basis for johnson’...

social changes and considering people’s needs are seen as the most important issues in the changes of persian poetry in constitutional era. the writers of this article have considered the views of western and iranian critics to study the function of the addressee in the changes of persian poetry in constitutional era. the use of such a study is that the writers have found and analyzed many soci...

The pressure to produce work in English and to publish internationally has increased over recent years. However, a large number of non-native writers may be excluded from the web of global scholarship due to defective rhetorical organizations and discourse structures of their works. This study aimed to investigate frequency and distribution of transition markers (TMs) in introduction sections o...

a considerable part of persian classical literature is devoted to didactic literature. mysticism has also been very important in persian didactic literature and sufi tales are clear example of that; since all these tales have been used for the purpose of teaching. attar, one of the greatest persian poets, has paid lots of attention to these tales and has benefited them a lot in his works. attar...

in every field, typology leads to a better, more complete and more precise knowledge. in spite of the importance and extent of traditional persian stories, there is as yet no complete classification of these stories. most of the present classifications are imprecise, mixing the different kinds of stories. this paper merely deals with an analysis, criticism, morphology and typology of persian tr...