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Research Paper
The Structural analysis of supernatural fertility and birth in Iranian fairy tales and the myths of Iran, India and Mesopotamia

Samin Espargham; Abu-al-Ghasem Ghavam; Samira Bameshki

Volume 8, Issue 2 , February 2019, Pages 1-19

Abstract
  In fairy tales, pregnancies and births, like other incidents and elements of this genre, have supernatural and transformed forms. This paper examines the diverse types of supernatural pregnancies and births in Iranian fairy tales. With the help of Claude Levi Strauss's structural mythology, these fairy ...  Read More

Research Paper
Functions of Iranian Garden

Behrouz Afkhami; Zeynab Khosravi

Volume 8, Issue 2 , February 2019, Pages 21-38

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2019.71431

Abstract
  The Persian garden is one of the most prominent cultural phenomena of Iran. According to the historical documents and archeological evidence, the first Persian gardens were constructed in the Achaemenid period. This paper seeks to answer the question that which cultural and social meanings the Persian ...  Read More

Research Paper
The Importance of the Greater Media in Iran’s Political Development during the Hellenistic Period

Hamidreza Peighambari

Volume 8, Issue 2 , February 2019, Pages 39-58

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2019.71433

Abstract
  The historical studies of the turbulent and obscure period of the Macedonian rule in Iran are mainly focused on regions such as Persis and Parthia. The role of other areas including Media has remained neglected in these studies, while the land of Media had always been one of the significant parts of ...  Read More

Research Paper
Pāyandānīh Pad Tan and Żamāna Bi-al-nafs

Pedram Jam

Volume 8, Issue 2 , February 2019, Pages 59-73

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2019.71434

Abstract
  The private law of Zoroastrians of the Sasanian era, as reflected in Mādayān ī hazār dādestān (The Book of Thousand Judgments), acknowledges two types of surety-bond: pāyandānīh pad xwāstag and pāyandānīh pad tan. The first one, which is obviously comparable to żamāna bi-al-šayʾ ...  Read More

Research Paper
Persian Rider Figurine from Cyprus

Shahrokh Razmjou

Volume 8, Issue 2 , February 2019, Pages 75-92

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2019.71435

Abstract
  A small terracotta figurine of a rider is held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which was found in Cyprus. The rider has a Persian attire, possibly showing a Persian character with signs and features of the Achaemenid era. Comparing the details of the figurine with similar artifacts can ...  Read More

Research Paper
Montesquieu is a committed writer?

Ayda Shahanians; Mohammad Ziar

Volume 8, Issue 2 , February 2019, Pages 93-109

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2019.71436

Abstract
  Commitment means taking responsibility, and the author is responsible for expressing the truth. Moreover, the responsible writer and philosopher is not a dreamer. He should not consider himself as an omniscient; for instance, he should not show hostility to religions or a specific religion. In the history ...  Read More

Research Paper
On Some Nautical Words in Persian and Arabic

seyyed Ahmad Reza Qaemmaqami

Volume 8, Issue 2 , February 2019, Pages 111-125

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2019.71437

Abstract
  Navigation is essentially an international art; therefore, its vocabulary may also travel from one side of the world to the other by the seamen. Some nautical words and terms used by Muslim sailors, which have been the subject of research, are Persian or Iranian. Hence, this particular branch is important ...  Read More

Research Paper
The Anubanini,s Rock Relief of Sarpol-e Zahab Reconsidering a Historical Event

Kamal Aldin Niknami; Mohammad Amin Mirghaderi

Volume 8, Issue 2 , February 2019, Pages 127-145

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2019.71438

Abstract
  The Anubanini relief is Sarpol-e Zahab is one of the most ancient rock reliefs in Iran, which was identified by Rawlinson in 1836 and de Morgan published the first drawing of it in 1896. It is located on the main route to the Greater Khorasan and adjoins the highlands of the central Zagros to the low-lying ...  Read More