جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "ایران و اسلام" در نشریات گروه "علوم اجتماعی"

By Adopting a critical approach to reading text, the present article examines and evaluates the book "Historiography and its Developments in Iran and the World", a joint work of Hossein Mirjafari and Abbas Ashouri-Nejad. The book reviewed in this article, which is dedicated to Payame Noor University as a textbook on "Historiography and its Developments in Iran and the World" as a sourcebook at the undergraduate level in history, is no exception to this rule. Academic textbooks are expected to meet the required scientific standards. Despite the authors' efforts to compile a documentary on historiography, this book has some drawbacks including lack of a detailed table of contents, index, typographical errors, poor writing and grammar, the indentation of some sentences, poor citation and documentation, lack of separation of sources in the bibliography, etc. In terms of the content, formal considerations and lack of explanation of terms and concepts, improper use of first-hand sources, unbalanced volume of the sections, the existence of clichéd content, etc. are also observed. The author of the article tries to review and evaluate the book and explain its strengths and weakness, to present his suggestions to the authors and the textbook publishing council in order to increase the scientific-educational aspect of this book and its structured quality.

Panegyric poem is one of the most commonkinds of poems in Persian literature. It goes back to one thousand years ago. The panegyric poets in comparison with their predecessor have done many changes in form and content both. We witness a link between Panegyric poem and Iranian Myths. As an example the term of Shah (king) in combinations:“Shah-e- Mardan Ali”, Shah-e- Vellayat, Shah-e- Najaf or the prefix of Mehr (kindness) like Mehr Ali. The combinations that have been coined through history.Regarding Iranians tendency to their myths and also their respect to religious leaders, they gradually combine their myths to their religious characters. The word such as sun and its cognates are used as an epithet to respectable characters specially Imam Ali(as). Actually the myths have been saved historically in the unconscious part of nation’s mind. Illustrating of this issue is the main aim of authors here. These changes have been done in differnet aspects including myths and because of its mysterious function reveal as a cultural phenomenon.

Representation of "others" in Western movies has been one of the important themes in Western cinema for several decades. Calling non- Western civilization uncivilized ‘others’ has been common by the West from centuries ago based on their ideological viewpoints. The Western media began representing communism as a dangerous "other" during the "Cold War". After the fall of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the West-- as a superior civilization-- regarded Islam and Muslims and to some extent other races and ethnicities as "Others". This paper critically analyses the film "The Physician" based on Orientalism thesis. The film is based on the novel of the same name iv by the American novelist Noah Gordon. The novel is fiction. This paper has used multi-method approach including semiotics, content analysis, discourse analysis, and technical decoding. The findings of the research show that the movie represented Islam and Iranians as wild (uncivilized and irrational) and dangerous "others". Like other Western movies, the film implied that "We" are better than the "Others"; the same as before.

This paper analyzes the historical causes of the rise of the natural sciences in Iran after Islam. Through reviewing different accounts of the scientific movement that happened during a period from the third to the fifth century A.H., the researchers try to provide a convincing explanation for this historical event. The employed research methods in this study including "causal narrative" and Max Weber's "objective possibility" and "causal Adequacy" are used to test the causal narrative presented in this paper. The results show that the equality seeking slogans of Islam led to the elimination of the Sassanid's semi-cassette system and the tribal government of Umayyad. In addition, the influence of the Persian nobles in the Abbasid court and the transmission of culture and values of scientism to the Sassanid government in the politically stable and wealthy environment of Abbasid court led to the rise of natural sciences in Iran and Islamic countries. It is argued that with the establishment of semi-independent states in the third and fourth centuries A.H. in Iran, this academic growth was transferred to these governments and led to the rise of science in Iran.