نشریه آینه پژوهش
سال بیست و هشتم شماره 4 (پیاپی 166، مهر و آبان 1396)

In the present article, the author attempts to provide a definition of «Murgh-e ivān (porch chicken) » which is part of the phrase «Murgh-e ivān ze hol-e ū beparīd (the porch chicken flies away due to being scared of him) » in one of Sa’di›s Golestān anecdotes. According to the author, what Sa’di means is the picture of the chicken painted or stuccoed on the porch.

In the following paper, the author is going to present a brief report of Abulalā Mu’arry’s life and thoughts based on Mu’jam ol-Odabā by Yāqoot Himavi and the third volume of Tāhā Hussein’s Tārīkh al-Adab al-Arabi (The History of the Arabic Literature).

In the form of the eighth article of a series of publications titled “Skimming Manuscripts”, the author has scrutinized the texts of several manuscripts. These texts are as follow:Sultān Muhammad Khudābande’s aphorisms
Looting a library in Isfahan by Manoochehr khān-e
Gorji, and finding those books after sixty years
A note by son of the chief of the entire country of
Khorāsān in 1308 AH about raining and the decrease
of the grain price
Mughal Sultans who were defender of wisdom
Shah Sultan Hussein’s Waqfnāme
Qazvīn’s ruined school
The area of the residential quarter (measuring the
environment during the time of Ma›mun Abbasi)
Muhammad Taqi Majlisi’s stand about the stories of
Rostam and Esfandiār
In the days of Safavid, Honood and Transoxiana
inhabitants of Medina annoyed Shiites
When Mullā Muhammad Taqi-e Majlesi learns about
the news of Shah Abbās and killing of his son in an
old book
Breaking of the Indian idols by the command of
Majlesi in Isfahan
A wonderful story and cosmography literature
A short note on the history of the text correction
A writing on a stone which came from under the lake
in Shooshtar in 1102
Shah Ismaiel’s ruling over Tabrīz
Judging the foreign archeologists 115 years ago

The author, in the forthcoming article, in the form of a series of notes about history, culture and literature is going to talk briefly about the following issues:Some of the geniuses dying young
Two examples of wrong assignment to the Qur’anic
verse
Ghazaāli›s interesting speech about «playing with the
rope, the wages of the artist, and a poet with invective
poetry and…. . ”
Two points about this verse “Tā bidānjā resīd
dānesh-e man ke bidānam hami ke nādānam”
(that’s the point of my knowledge that I know that I
do not know)
Nobody’s attending on the body of Abu Obeide
Odai bin Zeid’s Habsiāts (prison writings)
Presenting several examples of Ancient Arabic and
Persian poems on testing the sharpness of the sword
by hitting the dog.

Pīr-e Parniyān Andīsh is a book published in 1391. In this book, Hooshang Ibtihāj, being in his 90s, talks about his memories with Mīlād Azimi and Ātefe Taiyeh In this paper, the author talks about some of the considerations about the book, and at the end he presents some of the findings and points about some of the literary topics.

Literary criticism has flourished in the Abbasid period with the advent of a number of literary critics and scholars in the field of debate, writing, and rhetoric; and valuable works were created in that period, which originated the formation of the currents and other subsequent works using the same techniques. In the following paper, the writer is going to study two pioneering works in literary criticism: Al-Mathal ol-Sāer fi Adab al-Kitāb wa al-Shāer by Dhiāoddīn ibn Athīr and Al-falak ol-Dāer alal-Mathal ol-Sāer by Ibn Abi al-Hadīd which is a critique of the first book. Regarding this, he first of all introduces both authors and their works. Following this, he is going to examine each of the books, and points out some of Ibn Abi Hadīd’s criticisms of Ibn Athīr’s book.

Gholāmhasan Moqīmi examined Imam Khomeini›s ijtihadi method in terms of the production of political jurisprudential thought in his book the Effectiveness of Imam Khomeini›s Ijtihadi Method in the Production of Political Jurisprudential Thought. This book which is in three sections and has 372 pages was published by the Institute of Islamic Science and Culture in the winter of 1395. The author of the following article is going to talk about the content of the book and mentions some points and criticisms about it.

One of the ways to improve the ways of teaching knowledge is to make the texts more efficient and up-to-date. In the seminary school, the production of new educational texts has been at the heart of attention for several years, and an office has been established under the name of the Office of Compiling the Educational Texts of the Seminary Schools. Getting Familiar with the knowledge of Syntax is one of the texts produced by this office in the field of syntax. Using an analytical-descriptive method, the following paper is going to study and criticize the structure of this book in terms of presenting the introduction, the order of the rules, as well as classifying the chapters, and the content of the book in terms of definitions, the content of the lessons, and the exercises.

Masāel al-Murtadhā is a collection of the great Shiite scholar Sharīf Murtadhā’s treatises and different questions which are about jurisprudence and principles, theology, and literature. This collection is corrected by Wafqān Khadhīr Mohsen al-Ka’bi, and is published in Beirut in 1422 AH. In the present article, after pointing out some of the features of the original version of this book, the author shows different inaccuracies and shortcomings of Ka›bi›s correction.The numerous and various problems of this edition indicate that the presented text of Sharīf Murtadhā’s Rasāel wa Masāel is unstable and unreliable, and thus lacks the credibility of citation and reference.

The theological thoughts and writings of Sayyid Murtadhā, the great Imamiya theologian and scholar, are important in several ways, and worth paying close attention. First of all, Sharīf Murtadhā’s theological school is considered to be the first «comprehensive» and «systematic» theological school in Imamiya, which has presented a detailed and consistent system of Imamiya beliefs. This school is also the most rationalistic theological school in Imamiya theology and its revival in the present era is very fruitful and necessary for modifying the irrationality which is dominating the popular movement of those who care too much about the unnecessary things. In addition to this, Sayyid Murtadhā’s theological writings are original works which contain some new theological thoughts, and by no means is a mere transcript of the thoughts and writings of the theologians before him. Also his works indicate an early and an important reading of the Shiite beliefs that are very useful for understanding true Shi›a. Nevertheless, no scholarly and corrected editions of Sharīf Murtadhā’s precious theological works have been published yet. Any research and analysis of Sharīf Murtadhā’s theological works depends on preparing some precise and correct editions of his theological works which of course requires special skill and paitience.

This article has made an effort to provide a bibliography of teaching Persian language to non-Persian speakers. The present bibliography includes 586 Persian books, 112 non-Persian books, and 583 Persian articles. The availability of such a catalog is not only effective in the planning, organizing, compiling and analysis of Persian language teaching sources, but also is efficient in the fields of Iranology, text studying, terminology, sociology, and so on. At the end of the article, there are some charts and tables which help us find out about the spatial and temporal distribution of the sources of teaching Persian language to non-Persian speakers.