The Origins of Drama in Ancient India and a Glance at its Iranian Counterparts
The Origins of Drama in Ancient India and a Glance at its Iranian Counterparts

Alireza Esmaeilpour

Volume 5, Issue 2 , December 2016, , Pages 1-15

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2016.59421

Abstract
  Drama has an ancient history in India. The Sanskrit dramatic literature developed in an organized traditional infrastructure and continued during centuries. The main origins of drama ...  Read More
About Heroes’ Gīsvari (Having Curly Hair) and Obstinacy 
(An Appendix to Georges Dumézil’s Theory about Warriors’ Function)
About Heroes’ Gīsvari (Having Curly Hair) and Obstinacy (An Appendix to Georges Dumézil’s Theory about Warriors’ Function)

Alireza Esmaeilpour

Volume 4, Issue 1 , August 2014, , Pages 1-15

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2014.52665

Abstract
  Having curly hair (Persian: gīsvari) is one of the obscure and rare concepts in the epics and heroic stories but various texts and particularly some of the non-Iranian sources pertaining ...  Read More