فصلنامه مطالعات تاریخ فرهنگی
پیاپی 23 (بهار 1394)

This article will introduce the opinions of Old Testament’ researchers and the suspicious issue of Achaemenid Kings’ Aramaic Mandates in the Ezra-Nehemiah Book as spurious text of later periods, while is going to answer these questions that how is the originality of these mandates? And how much is the historical reality of the orders of Achaemenid kings about the religious affairs of Jews? In order to answer these questions, these mandates have been compared in terms of content with other similar acts of Achaemenid Kings in other parts of their territories. It has been concluded that Achaemenid Kings issued this kind of charters and regulations for their vassals. Other findings of this research shows that in spite of the general acceptance of this possibility, not all of the subjects of this texts should be considered as historical and it is necessary to pay attention to the effect of concepts and especial points of view which the main writer of the narration of Ezra or the later editor was going to transmit it.

The issue of this article is to study the social, economic and cultural situation of woman in Bektashi Order in Anatolia during Seljuks of Rum. The main findings of this study show that Bektashi Order had an important role in innovation of traditions related to women and paved the way for modernity. Ladies from various social classes were related to mystical doctrines. They celebrated rituals and attended in Sufism ceremonies. They were responsible for reception of chivalrous. Not only marriage and taking care of children did not prevent them from their activities, but also provided their security in the society. These ladies also managed the affairs of Khanghah and Tekyeh and even reached to the spiritual rank such as receiving divine inspiration.

The Remonstrance of Najd is amongst the issues of remonstrance and eulogize of lands in religious literature which has been argued since the early Islamic centuries until now. The emphasis of religious scholars of the Najd on Hadithism especially during the recent centuries and the presence of Ahadith about the remonstrance of this land and of course the capacity of this Ahadith for creation of dissolving legitimacy, has made a challengeable atmosphere during the history of this land in Islamic period until now. This issue had gained more importance after the rise of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab in this land and had been used by the critics of Wahhabism. This article will compare the circumstances of considering the issue of remonstrance of Najd and the inverse meaning of it which has been used in two segment of the rise of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and the Saddam invasion of Kuwait.

The amalgamation of ancient Iran traditions with symbolic elements or enigmatic terms is one of the obstacles of researchers who study and research about the ceremonies and traditions of ancient Iran. This issue which is known as the characteristics of ancient Iran religions has been emerged in the Ayyaran rite. This article tries to study the enigmatic influence of ancient Iran tradition on the Ayyarid rites. Therefore the history of Ayyari in ancient Iran and the trifunction of gods in the Indo-European tradition which is the base of Georges Dumézil’ theory have been compared with the trinary stages of initiation in Ayyari rite during Islamic period and the prominent role of the number three in the rites of Fotowwat in order to clarify their relation and coalition with the ancient Iran culture.

This article will explain and analyze the political changes of Jakli Family in regard to Mongols and Ilkhanids rule and the trends of power and their government in Georgia. Findings show that Jakli family tried to strengthen their situation and increase their power in Georgia through adopting various policies versus Mongol commanders, Ilkhanid government and Bagratid kingdom. Furthermore, Mongol commanders and Ilkhanid government also tried to prevent Bagratid kingdom form gaining more power by families such as the prominent Jakli family and used these vassal rulers for their political and military aims and tampering their sovereignty.

This article tries to review the thought and speculative system of Farah Anton through Discourse Analysis theory of Fairclough. This research claims that the text of the book Ibn Rush and His Philosophy is under the influence of its author’s though. This text reflects the ideology of a secular intellectual which tries to promote the Western thought in world of Islam through introducing a philosopher with new thoughts which have been approved by new Western civilization. The text tries to contend with the methods of the era and tradition as a dominant power. Anton in this text tries to produce a thought that influenced by Western thought which reflects the intellectual thought of his era. This text questioned the dominant power of tradition while itself is reproducing the Western thought and at the same time is influenced by the context which this discourse act had been produced.