آراد غلامی

The roots of many literary stories can be found in historical narratives. In this research, we focus on four historical and literary narratives that have a special type of deception as their motif. At first, we give a summary of each of these four narratives (descriptive level) and then we explain their commonalities and differences (analytical level). The first narrative is about a Persian man named Zopyrus, who helped Darius the Great to conquer Babylon. The second narrative tells the story of a man from the companions of the ruler of the Hephthalites, who led to the defeat of the Sassanid army by gaining the trust of Peroz I. The third narrative depicts the conflict between crows and owls which ends in favor of the first group with the cleverness and cunning of a crow. The fourth narrative is the story of a Jewish king who, with the trick of his minister, causes internal conflict and mass killing of Christians. In all these narratives, gaining the enemy’s trust by harming oneself is used as a motif, but the method of processing this motif is different in the aforementioned stories. This research, according to its topic and method, is conducted as library research. The findings of this research show that the main plot is the same in these four narratives, but their processing is different. In addition, the historical narrative of Zopyrus can be considered an ancient source for three other narratives; a source that has been neglected until now.

Irony as a word means mockery, ridicule, derision, and the like. In Persian literature, there have been many names for all kinds of jokes, with different credits. In contemporary research in this field, irony is used as a word for all texts that are characterized by laughter. In fact, irony is a type of literature that magnifies evil and ugliness. In this descriptive-analytical research, the general and expanded meaning of irony, which includes concepts such as lampoon and facetiae, is used, and after examining the definition and scope of the concept of irony and specifically, situational irony, we will analyze this genre in the sixth chapter of Jami’s prose work called Baharestan in order to identify the various statuses that create irony in this text; Finally, we try to analyze why certain statuses are used more frequently. So, in this research, at the theoretical level, the most frequent statuses used to create the situational irony in the classical Persian literature have been discussed and then, at the applied level, the situational irony in a specific literary work has been analyzed using those theoretical tools. On one hand, the descriptive dimension of this paper is based on the explanations about irony, in general, and the situational irony and the statuses which make it, in particular. On the other hand, the analytical aspect of this research is based on the implementation of the aforesaid analysis in the sixth chapter of Jami’s Baharestan. The findings of this research show that Jami has used situational irony in more than half of the passages of the sixth chapter of Baharestan, and his most frequent use in creating situational irony has been the status of disagreeable characteristics. In this way, he has ironized both external undesirable traits, such as ugliness, and inner unsavory characteristics, such as oppression. In addition, Jami’s use of eight different situations out of the ten most frequent situations that create situational irony in classical Persian literature has displayed a high diversity in the aforementioned book.

Applied mathematics is a branch of mathematics that, as an interdisciplinary field, implements the applications of pure mathematics in other sciences. Political science, as a field of humanities and social sciences, has resorted to mathematical tools to achieve goals such as increasing the accuracy of analyses, creating a combined view on issues with diverse branches and effectively displaying data and information as well. This trend has become more intense and rapid in the current era. One of the broad subsystems of applied mathematics is modeling. This interdisciplinary research, in response to the question that how a mathematical model can be designed to calculate and represent the stability or decline of political ideologies, has provided an efficient and suitable mathematical model based on algebraic and geometric components to calculate and display the stability or decline of political ideologies while creating a bridge between the two fields of mathematics and political science. Besides expressing and proving calculations related to this model, it has also shown its advantages over other existing models so as to eliminate part of the existing gap in political researches. As a practical example, the consistency of the ideology of Kemalism in recent decades has been estimated. This research has been done using computational and analytical method and its findings estimate the stability of Kemalism in the political system of Turkey more than a half.