فصلنامه عصر آدینه
پیاپی 16 (زمستان 1394)

The idea of "expectation" and the presentation of Imam Mahdi's features in the poems of committed poets to the Prophet's family are being seen a lot from a long time ago to now, especially in the poems of contemporary period. Contemporary poets have opened a new door to poem and literature, named Mahdavi literature, and they have introduced imam Mahdi as the savior of last times to the seekers of truth from the window of poem. Referring to some evidence of the poems of these poets, the present descriptive-analytic paper is going to examine the idea of expectation and the identity based on culture and civilization with reference to the commentaries of the Quran and widely transmitted narrations .The Persian and Arabic contemporary Shiite poets have described Imam Mahdi's features and the expectation for the Promised in their Mahdavi poems. However, the concept of expectation in the Muslim poet's thought hasnt been reduced to just waiting, but different themes concerning the Islamic identity and civilization have been considered too. Under the topic of Expectation literature, poets have dealt with themes like: waiting, types of waiting (destructive and instructive waiting), waiter's duties in the occultation period (patience, resistance, understanding and knowledge of imam Mahdi), the virtue of waiting, Friday as the symbol of waiting for the Promised.

The advent of Muslim promised savior is a predictable matter in the thoughts of Iranian scholars and poets. In fact, Persian poem has reflected the essence of Iranian's beliefs and thoughts. Vahshi Bafqi is among the poets who have considered Muslim's doctrinal principles, including the issue of 'the advent'. Vahshi is among the poets who expresses the poetical contents honestly. An evidence of this claim is the poem well-known as, "O, My God, give me a hear flaring". This depth of affection is easily observable concerning the Imam of the present age and the promised savior. Examining Vahshi's poem from the viewpoint of savior's advent, the writer of present article attempts to present motifs and concepts related to the period of advent as well as his infatuation with and waiting for His Holiness Advent.

Welai epistemology in Persian poem seeks to find some realities about religious literature in which recognition of the Infallible's welai position is considered, the status that has the sign of a supernatural and sacred rank, and the description of the Welai lauded is due to the same great status as well. Religious art and literature should always consider two holy dimensions that are recommended in hadith al-thaqalayn ("two weighty things hadith"): the holy Quran and the Prophet's family. This article investigates Sanayi Gaznavi and Bidel Dehlavi's literary viewpoints on the Welai epistemology. In their works, these two great Muslim mystic demonstrate their respect toward imam Ali's Welai status in Hadiqat ol-Haqiqah and Mohit-e Azam.
Sanayi in Hadiqat ol-Haqiqah has considered the issue of Ghadir and Bidel Dehlavi in Mohit-e Azam the issue of Walayat ("guardianship"); the present article examines each one's viewpoint in terms of their own religious thought.

Applying morphological approach toward historical narration of hidden savior, the present article attempts to compare its component unites with Mose's absence from his people and to clarify a common system of these two narrations. Although there are different details in these two narrations, a single pattern ties them to each other. This pattern has derived from Propp and those of the same opinion, and allows us to analyze variety of historical narrations on the basis of this pattern. The absence of savior is the cause of emergence of some elements and events that appeared in Mose's life in the form of illustrative and repetitive pattern, and it can be reproduced in other narrations that are related to the savior. Using library-documentary research method, this article, considering the morphology of the historical narration, identifies different active actors and presents a unique model of a religious discourse about occultation and savior, so that this model can be observed not only in this narration but also in other narrations concerning the occultation and the expectation.

The creator God, who has created the parts of existence and the whole being, has showed a special kindness to the human being as one creature among the whole universe, since He has sent down his messages by the elected men via revelation for better-living on the earth. So, through the revelational messages, all issues related to human's life have been expressed by direct or indirect indications. Meanwhile, art and architecture didnt remain without benefit and one can claim that in some verses of the Holy Quran, some subjects of art and architecture have been considered. In this paper, structural elements of architecture have been identified and adopted from the verses of holy Quran as well as they have been organized in two general and specific groups of elements. Furthermore, it has been determined how many structural elements are there in each surah as well as which surah presents the greatest number of structural elements. A number of structural elements (whether general or specific) in the surahs have only a single meaning and a number of them too have different meanings. At the end, these elements have been organized in two groups of mono-meaning and multi-meaning elements and finally their meanings have been analyzed.

In the viewpoint of many thinkers, myth in the earliest societies is a secret story which has a root in the reality, and which is culture-making and unrepeatable. However, from the 19th century onward, what is opposed to the reality is named myth. Israel is the only country in the world which has been formed on the basis of myths; thus, to take the myths from it is to take its identity. Meanwhile, Hollywood movie, on one hand, has had a great role in the popularization of Zionist myths. On the other hand, it has made a great attempt to popularize Islamophobia; so it has engaged a concept known as Zombie and has clearly claimed that Muslims are the same as Zombie. The present article is going to answer how Muslims and Zionist myths have been represented in the film Z. For this purpose, first the article explains Zionist myths and Stuart Hall’s theory of representation. Next, it examines this film through Roger Garaudy’s works and Roland Barthes’ semiology. Finally, according to the results of the research, it concludes that this film tries to show that Muslims behave the same as wild and savage Zombies, while Israel is exactly in the opposite status.

The main aim of present articles is to find an answer to the question that which topics and keywords are of special importance among the concepts of Mahdaviat domain in the published articles; also, due to sensibility of transmission of the significance of these subject matters, it attempts to find an answer to the question which instrument should be used in order to be endorsed the translation of the matters. In the present research, the author has selected randomly some abstracts chosen from Mahdavi articles and has analyzed their contents; utilizing statistic tools and the method of body study of the words in the framework of their contexts, the author did some discoveries in this field. Providing such indexes is among the requirements of every research in the growing fields of study; and hence, the domain of Mahdaviat can’t be excepted from this rule. Moreover, the author is going to offer a classification of the main Mahdaviat topics which benefits from both translator’s experiences and text-analyzer software. For this purpose, at first a number of published articles’ abstracts have selected in a purposive way and their English translations have been considered as data area. Next, random sampling was done, and by using concordancer software, the highfrequency words in the texts were recognized; then after adjusting them, these words were compared with their Persian equivalents. As a result, Mahdavi special names, the qualities attributed to Mahdaviat, and the relevant Islamic concepts are found as the main three thematic domain. The keywords of each domain and the acceptable translation within different texts were determined along with some examples and the explanation of texts. Finally, some suggestions have been made to link the translation of some concepts for better understanding.