نشریه مطالعات اسناد میراث فرهنگی
پیاپی 1 (زمستان 1395)

Research on manuscripts and historical inscriptions is of the utmost importance since they lead to a correct understanding and resolving of many uncertainties and unknown dimensions of material and spiritual cultural heritage. Countless number of different types of historical documents are not available to the researchers for various reasons or access to them is associated with many diffculties. The "Family Tree" detected in the village of Sokeh, as environs of city Shirvan, Northern Khorasan, which is a unique manuscript scroll, appears to be among such documents. In an initial review of this pedigree chart, the names of a number of historical and religious places and fgures located in parts of the Great Khorasan were identifed. Hence, the fundamental question of this research is based on evaluating the dimensions of the relationship between the information contained with the historical sites and historical, religious and mystical fgures buried in parts of the areas mentioned. The main question that arises is whether the
information contained in this pedigree chart in the forms of interest, including historical and geographical sites and cultural celebrities can be categorized or not? Due to lack of resources and information about places mentioned in the pedigree chart and lack of suffcient knowledge of the spiritual heritage, this document contains information that may lead to ambiguities unraveling and revealing of facts and identifying the nature and identity of historic and religious places, and in particular, the mausoleum buildings of the studied areas. Therefore, examining this family tree would include the genealogy of some religious and mystical characters of Khorasan and locating their burial site in the region, such as the recognition of the famous mystic "Khwaja Najmuddīn-e Kubrā", son of "Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din Kubra" and compliance his tomb with the building of "Khwaja Najmuddīn mausoleum", located in the village of Zirabad Jovin. The detection of range and location of historic towns and villages such as "Shadiyakh, Nishapur" and "Zirabad, Jovin" would be as other results of the research.

Inscriptions are written documents which have been less changed, and are supposed as expressive documents. In addition to art and culture, there are historical documents among carved texts on inscriptions which have been less studied. Perhaps, there are lots of researches about the route, speeches, scientific and religious debates, etc, but there are some amazing points among the inscriptions found in Yazd which names some holy shrines known as Foothold, as well as the stone cutter›s name that had showed his love to Imam Reza. One of the inscriptions as an ornamenting part of Asten-e Quds Razavi museum is known as the first Imam›s grave stone. In this article, we are going to study as if the named inscription is the stone which had been built by aYazdi stone cutter.

Iran has experienced a variety of climatic and geographical changes from ancient times onwards. A noticeable part of the Iranian central plateau has been surrounded by three mount ranges of Alborz in the north, Zagros in the west and Taftān mountains in the east as well as extensive arid deserts. The last one which is one of the most infertile deserts in the world consists of Dasht-e Kavīr in the north and Dasht-e Lūt in the south. Existence of desert in Iran makes our land to be always threatened by drought. In such circumstances, creation of mythologies concerning rain-creating seems logical. Accordingly, such myths dates back to the antiquity when our land was faced with drought and climatic problems. From the other side, the contents of the Iranian mythology about water reveal that protection and monitoring of water were of paramount importance and the Iranians have had diverse rituals, celebrations and prayers in this regard. This article tries to re-identify some of these rituals and celebrations in terms of cultural researches as well as archeological excavations. Their valuable aspects should be investigated and assessed in order to use the results in protection and monitoring of its national reservoirs.

Folkloric poems of different regions of Iran constitute a rich cultural, lingual and literary treasure which has been provided by the inhabitants of those regions through thousands of years. Two of the aspects of this tremendous heritage are its lingual and literary aspects and related studies. This article tries to examine these lingual and literary aspects of the folkloric poems. In the lingual aspect, the following items have been studies in the folkloric poems: The simplicity of language, application of local terms and words, bombastic and obsolete words, non-Iranian words and application of world out of the current grammatical format. Besides, this paper attempts to show the literary aspects of the poems including the beat, quality of alignment and rhyme and their varities. Moreover, some literary features like pun, repetition, antagonism, anagram, simile, metaphor, stinger, paroemia, taxis, allusion, satire have been introduced and a number of examples have been provided as well.

Cloud formation and rain production have been always of the important concerns in the Iranian plateau and have always occupied the minds of its inhabitants. The expression of this topic in the Pahlavi writings of the Parthian and Sassanian periods prove this claim. In this writings, the description of rain is mixure of myth, science and spiritual affairs. This article aims to find out the ancient Iranian ideas on cloud formation and rain production within the pahlavi writings –the Parthian and especially Sasanian periods- and compare them with the Greek philosophers’ opninons such as Aristotale as well as scientific literature belonging to the Islamic period. This paper tries to shed a light on an attitude of the ancient Iranians about natural sciences and geography and specificall

Cloud formation and rain production have been always of the important concerns in the Iranian plateau and have always occupied the minds of its inhabitants. The expression of this topic in the Pahlavi writings of the Parthian and Sassanian periods prove this claim. In this writings, the description of rain is mixure of myth, science and spiritual affairs. This article aims to find out the ancient Iranian ideas on cloud formation and rain production within the pahlavi writings –the Parthian and especially Sasanian periods- and compare them with the Greek philosophers’ opninons such as Aristotale as well as scientific literature belonging to the Islamic period. This paper tries to shed a light on an attitude of the ancient Iranians about natural sciences and geography and specifically on their opnions about cloud formation and rain production.

As we know Sassanid kings have used the Titles such as «čihr az yazdān» means «The Race of God», «ēr» means «noble», and «Ērān ud Anērān» means «Iran and non Iran» in Inscriptions, Coins and Seals. The Titles Ērān and Anērān have been used by Sassanid kings(Ardaxšīr I, Šahpuhr I§ II, Narseh and Kirdīr the Priest of Priest of Sassanid period). What is clear that the concept of “Ērān” is also used in religious sense which is ended to political one and finally to a territory because Kirdīr explained the concept of Ērān and Anērān in his inscription. In fact disappearance of this title was due to the emergence of Kirdīr and his struggle in the structure and organization hierarchy of Zoroastrian Priest and the Sassanid Kings had gotten the mundane task and to became just as good Zoroastrian kings in Iran. Another reason of the gradual elimination of the Titles of Sassanid kings may be the defeat of Sassanid kings on the Romans and the loss of the territories where once was part of Iran and also the territories which called Anērān, that Sassanid kings ruled over them. They had to give these lands and lost the title Anērān.