نشریه آینه پژوهش
سال بیست و هشتم شماره 2 (پیاپی 164، خرداد و تیر 1396)

The universal approach to Shahnameh and reading Shahnameh, and the growing need for its proper understanding and accurate reading extends the scope of research in this area. Meanwhile, it is important to resolve the difficulties of the text of Shahnameh and to eliminate the inconsistencies which are between various manuscripts and publications. Hence, the author in the present paper rereads a number of verses of Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh and proposes some suggestions in the domain of reading and lexical reporting of Shahnameh. Regarding this, he rereads five or six words of the story of Māzandarān war and Rostam’s seven labors.

The Musha’sha’ie movement and then the Musha’sha’ie government, which was established in Khuzestan and southern Iraq in the 9th century AH, is a Shi’ite Sufi Movement that has been similar to some other movements established both before and after it. In all these movements, the one who rebels is claiming to be Mahdi or a special representative of his, and his followers are Sufi Shias or Shiite Sufis who typically have exaggerated but simple ideas which can be summarized as absolute commitment to the leader. In this paper, the author tries to discuss the economic motivation and social context of the formation of this movement. He is going to present some information about Muhammad bin Fallāh, one of the leaders of this movement, the word Sha’sha’e, and the title Mush’sha’. In addition, he speaks about Muhammad bin Fallāh’s claims in the book Kalām-e Al-Mahdi, the book versions, its benefits, and its important points.

The entry of “Manuscripts of the Qur’an” from Leiden Encyclopedia of the Qur’an is written by François Dorosh, one of the most prominent researchers in the field of the manuscripts of the Qur’an. The article consists of a brief introduction and eight sections. The author in the present paper outlines the article and the topics discussed therein. The eight sections of the article are as follows: Pre- Uthmānic manuscripts, the Hijāzi and Umayyad codices, the Qur’anic codex in early Abbāsid times, A century of change, towards the modern Qur’anic codex, the Qur’anic codex in the western Islamic world and in West Africa, Later developments, Production and conservations.

In the form of the sixth article of a series of publications titled “Skimming Manuscripts”, the author has scrutinized the texts of several manuscripts. These texts are as follow:- The story of a wonderful dream about the presence of Imam Baqir (AS) in Karbala
- The war and struggle between the Motesherre’e and Sheikhiyah in 1315 AH in Hamedān
- The catastrophe of the fall of Isfahan in 1135 AH
- Report of the meeting of Nāser-al-Din Shah with the scholars of Sarābi region around Nahāvand in 1309
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- Shah Abbas’s Chef, going to pilgrimage, and the desire of writing a treatise on cooking
- Shah Abbas’s decree against extravagance and wearing silk and woolen clothes
- A Different analysis of the cause of Iran’s failure in the wars of Iran and Russia
- A few precious chronograms from the Safavid period
- How to write Ta’zieh Nāme
- Decree on the appointment of Shaykh al-Islam of Bahrain during the Safavid period
- Discovery of the coins of early Islam in Kāshān during the time of Shah Abbas, moving them to Isfahan and reading them

The author, in the forthcoming article, in the form of a series of notes about history, culture and literature, has introduced six proverbs which both in Arabic and Persian are about vain and impossible works. Besides, he presents a brief report of the four books on the Arabic proverbs which have been written by Iranian literary writers.

Many of the financial documents of Iran’s history have been written down in Siāq handwriting. So, in order to have a better understanding of the economic history of this country in the Safavid and Qajar periods, or even before that, this handwriting should be recognized to help us reread the historical documents and writings. Therefore, the importance of writing a book to introduce and describe this handwriting in different periods of history is obvious. The two-volume book Siāq (history, education, bureaucracy and accounting math), written by Asadullah Abdoli Ashtiāni (Tehran: Safir-e Ardihal, First Edition: 1395) is the latest book on teaching Siāq, and has gathered some detailed and comprehensive information about this subject. The author of the following paper intends to introduce and criticize the mentioned book. Regarding this, he first of all presents some information about Asadullah Abdoli Ashtiāni, and then describes the main sources used by the author in writing the book. Providing a report on the content and sections of the book, and expressing its strengths, as well as its structural and content criticism are among the other topics discussed in the article.

Jurisprudential Re-reading of Enjoining Good and Forbidding Wrong and Carrying out Hodud (Limits) is the latest work of Mostafā Mohaghegh Dāmād, published in 1396 by the Islamic Science Publishing Center. The author has written the present article with the aim of introducing the book. After mentioning the importance of the book, he briefly reviews the content of the five sections of the work: “Good and wrong definition”, “the decree of enjoining good and forbidding wrong”, “the conditions of enjoining good and forbidding wrong “, and “carrying out Hodud”. Also, he has briefly explained about the seven last attachments of the book.

The need to re-write the textbooks according to the needs of the day is obvious. However, re-writing the textbooks is difficult. Hence, changing the textbooks of the Seminary school has always been a challenging topic. Perhaps, Sarf-e Sāde (Simple Conjugation) by Muhammad Reza Tabātabāie can be considered as the first outcome of this project. The author of this paper has attempted to depict the shortcomings and problems of this book in two parts: structure and content.

Nasir al-Din Kashāni (Qāshi) Helli (d: 755 AH) is one of the most important Imami theologians and logicians of the middle centuries. His works, especially his valuable explanations and annotations on theological, logical, and philosophical works, are considered to be of high importance. However, so far no significant articles have been written on his works and his thoughts. This paper first of all tries to gather the dispersed information regarding his life, education, and teaching which have been documented in various sources. Following this, his works, the theological ones in particular, are going to be introduced.

Nahj ol-Mustarshedin fi Osool ol-Din is one of Allāme Helli’s most important theological treatises upon which various commentaries have been written. Among these commentaries, the one written by the famous theologian and logician Nasir al-Din Kashāni (Qāshi) Helli (d:755 AH) and titled Mousel at-Tālebin elā Sharh-e Nahj ol-Mustarshedin is a very valuable work. So far, only three copies of this book have been known; but recently, the writer of this article has discovered another version of the work. The present paper introduces the newly-found manuscript which is currently being held in one of the Turkish libraries.