سید مهدی عسکری

"Humour and Caricature" Magazine is one of the Iranian comic publications that has been presenting social and popular humor in a written and pictorial way since 1991. The purpose of this article is to introduce black humor and review and analysis it in the humour and caricature magazine by studying and analyzing 298 issues of this magazine. Paying attention to the multifaceted and introverted satires and facts of the contemporary violent world has created a balance between the amount of black humor and the happy or the usual press humor in this magazine. the "Death Station" page with a hilarious look at the scary reality of death, mostly surreal and thoughtful works along with modern aphorism, memorials, anti-war and anti-terrorism works and a part of 4Dhumor and social cartoons are protuberant examples of black humor in the humour and caricature magazine. most of the amount of black humor of this magazine in the written humour section Belongs to aphorism and in the visual humor section it belongs to nocomment cartoon and caricature(face cartoon), Respectively. 36 pages, i.e. 12% on the covers and 61 pages on the back cover and inside the covers are correspondingly dedicated to black humor.

Sharaf al-Din ibn Shah Husein Beiromi-Lari, a scientist from the Beirom district in the south of Fars province, [a place] known as Dar al-Awliya of Larestan. In this article, a newly-found version of his work entitled Misbah ul- Janan and Miftah ul-Janan is introduced. This work is a unique translation of [the book] Junnat ul-Aman al-Waqi'ah and Janat ul-Iman ul-Baqiyah known as Misbah by the Lebanese scholar Allama Sheikh Ibrahim Kaf'ami with a comprehensive and versatile introduction and conclusion. This, by itself, is a special advantage over some of [other] Misbah Kaf'ami's authentic translations. Misbah ul-Janan was translated in 1140 AH and, in 1149 AH, it was calligraphed in Naskh and Nastaliq script along with accents, and was donated to Mirza Mohammad Rafi’, Treasurer of Dar al-Mo'menin Rasht and is currently kept in the library of Astan Quds Razavi. A double gold-plated inscribed frontispiece, illuminated themes between the lines on the first two pages with the margins of the Arabesque flowers and leaves, vermilion table drawings, beautiful calligraphy, an exquisite and dignified preface, an introduction and conclusion that complement the forty chapters of the original text, and an exact translation with eloquent expression are among the privileges of this version.