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1 - British India and Anti-Colonial Discourse in Contemporary Iran: The Causes of the Beginning and Spread of Anti-Colonial Beliefs among Iranians
Farhad Hajari Abdolrahim Ghanavat Mohsen Massumi

10.30495/jhcin.2023.22306

Although Iran has never been formally colonized, the anti-colonial ideology was disseminated there. The root of Iranian anti-colonial thoughts, often, has been studied in the context of the history of the relations between Iran and European powers such as Britain and Ru More

Although Iran has never been formally colonized, the anti-colonial ideology was disseminated there. The root of Iranian anti-colonial thoughts, often, has been studied in the context of the history of the relations between Iran and European powers such as Britain and Russia. The current research suggests a new opinion and assumes that Iranian used the experience of British colonial in India to form and propagate the anti-colonial discourse. Since the second half of 19th century, a variety of texts concerning British rule in India has written in Persian. A content analysis of these works and the social conditions in which they were embedded indicate that the anti-colonial discourse in Iran was because of fear of loss of national and religious identity and so, they tried to use the British colonial adventures in India for publicizing the anti-colonial ideology.   Manuscript profile

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2 - A Bhabhaesque Postcolonial Study of Hybridity in V. S. Naipaul’s “In a Free State”
Ali Dehdari Alireza Jafari

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3 - Semiotics of tension in Rajā Alem's Tavq al-Hamām (The Dove's Necklace) based on Jacques Fontanille and Claude Zilberberg’s viewpoints
Raja Abuali Behzad Asbaghi qiqlo

Semiotics is basically a general theory of significations. Its main objective is to enter a literary text such as a novel to throw light on its darknesses and to distinguish the different features of that text, so that the semiotician can extract the foundations of anal More

Semiotics is basically a general theory of significations. Its main objective is to enter a literary text such as a novel to throw light on its darknesses and to distinguish the different features of that text, so that the semiotician can extract the foundations of analytic criticism. Therefore, tensive semiotics is, on the one hand, relies on the separation of ambition from possibility and realization, while it is based on the tension between power and distance. On the other hand, the tension is an imaginary place that produces reactions of essence and conscience to the material world along with the temporal, spatial and quantitative features. In the present study that stresses on descriptive-analytic method, the novel Tavq al-Hamām (The Dove's Necklace) by Rajā Alem, the Saudi Arabian novelist, is studied and criticized according to tensive semiotics through the study of most important semiotic elements of the novel and the characters of the society of Mecca in the post-colonial era. The results of the study show that the tensive semiotics led to the emergence of tension between characters and events in the novel. so that, the tension reaches the point in which the reader doesn’t understand the events or understands something else from the intension of the author. It is concluded from the present study that based on tensive semantic, the ‘whys’ of the theory in the novel lead to the distinction of some of the main values within tension between culture and civilization, all that to attest the severity of and the distance between these two. We also concluded that the main aspects, the internal and the external intention, and the essence that is comprehended and pronounced is a great cause of the tension between culture and civilization in Mecca. Manuscript profile

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4 - A Survey on the Concept of Freedom in poems by FaroukiYazdi and AbolghasemAlshaby
Abdolreza Modareszadeh Zainab Khoramaabadi Arani Aboozar Ghasemi Arani Hassan Sefareshi Bidgoli

The  concept  of  freedom  has  beenexpressed  in  different  ways  in differentcultures and societies. This expression has a special place among African  and  Asian  nations  such  as  Iran &nb More

The  concept  of  freedom  has  beenexpressed  in  different  ways  in differentcultures and societies. This expression has a special place among African  and  Asian  nations  such  as  Iran  tasting  the  bitter  sense  of despotism and colonialism.Poets in such nations have constantly used their poetic  and  gentle  soul  to  cry  for  freedom  and  they  have  played  an important role to inform people of their rights. FaroukiYazdi and A. Alshaby are both have been introduced as “liberal poets”. The concept of freedom in their verses are expressedand definedwith words like freedom, law,  resistance  against  colonialism, dictatorship.  Authors  in  this  paper have tried to introduce and study the two poetsin a comparative ways as liberal literary writers whose poems are enriched with expressions of freedom. Consequently, this study shows that the word and concept of freedom has a special place in their poetry. The only difference and exception between these poets is that the concept of freedom has more varied range of meaning in FaroukiYazdi’s poetryincomparison with Alshaby’s. Manuscript profile

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5 - Anti-colonialism of Bakhtiaries With Emphasize Poem of "Rasurrection of Masjedsoleyman" By Darab Afsar Bakhtiari
Shabnam Hatampour Bita Babayeerad

Discovering oil in 1908 and establishing first oil well of the Middle East in the homeland of Bakhtiaries, Masjed Soleyman, have influenced that area and paved the ground for the British colonial presence in this area. Although native Bakhtiari wanderers early worked as More

Discovering oil in 1908 and establishing first oil well of the Middle East in the homeland of Bakhtiaries, Masjed Soleyman, have influenced that area and paved the ground for the British colonial presence in this area. Although native Bakhtiari wanderers early worked as the work forces in the oil facilities, they soon understand intelligently that they were seized for the colonialists' goals. The sense of oil ownership of their homeland, patriotism, and their disloyalty to the Pahlavie's government strengthen their distrust to the imperialists.  This paper has considered anti-colonialism aspects in dialectical poem of Masjed Soleyman Resurrection, the most popular poem between Bakhtiaries, with sociological viewpoint.    The result of this paper is as follows: Speech of the presence of colonialism and using oil of their ancestral land. Speech of the injustice of employers in deal with natives. Declaration of the lost generation. Declaration of the Pahlavi government.   Manuscript profile

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6 - Analysis of the possibility and the nature of African Philosophy Based on the Heinz Kimmerle’s Intercultural reading of the History of Philosophy
Ali Sanaie Reza Dehghani

In this paper, we describe and analyze the view of Heinz Kimmerle about the possibility and the obstacles to the realization of African philosophy. Under the influence of Gadamer's hermeneutics, Kimmerle speaks of mixing horizons of understanding into a dialogue between More

In this paper, we describe and analyze the view of Heinz Kimmerle about the possibility and the obstacles to the realization of African philosophy. Under the influence of Gadamer's hermeneutics, Kimmerle speaks of mixing horizons of understanding into a dialogue between two cultures. In his view, in order to interact with different cultures, it is necessary to keep away from centralism, while preserving the cultural identity, so that dialogue can be made between them. According to a reading that has spread through the spread of European colonialism and the Enlightenment, and the shadow of the history of philosophy, philosophy is rooted in Western thought, and other nations, especially the African tribes, lack philosophical thinking. According to Kimmerle, this European-Western thinking is a serious obstacle to intercultural dialogue. In light of the analysis that Kimmerle presents of the advent of African philosophy, rewriting the history of a new philosophy is based on the principles of intercultural dialogue, which in turn provides the basis for mutual respect on the international level and the realization of lasting peace in the world. Manuscript profile

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7 - National and Patriotic functions in Ra’di Azarakhshi’s poetry using epic approach
Faramarz Ahmadi Mehdi Mahoozi Mahmoud Tavoosi

In every society there exists a kind of collective consciousness known as national awareness and it is expressed in Persian literature as national patriotic theme.  The purpose of this article is to discuss and evaluate Gholam Ali Ra’di Azarakhshi’s vie More

In every society there exists a kind of collective consciousness known as national awareness and it is expressed in Persian literature as national patriotic theme.  The purpose of this article is to discuss and evaluate Gholam Ali Ra’di Azarakhshi’s viewpoints regarding Persian language, culture, civilization, and social values of Iran and to study and analyze national and patriotic themes in his compositions. Furthermore, the application of contemporary epic literature in his compositions is studied.  Using descriptive analytic and library approach the attempt is made in this article to study themes such as patriotism, antagonism towards enemy, also to study national and historical characters.  The results obtained show that Ra’di paid special attention towards contemporary epic functions such as anti-colonialism, national identity and language, preservation of independence and territorial integrity.  His attitude towards the concept of homeland and patriotism is to a large extent different from that of other poets.  The vastness of his thoughts in celebrating national and historical figures spans past till present characters. Manuscript profile

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8 - The modern international system and the development of the role of takfiri jihadism in the Arab world
Yoosof Seify

Takfiri jihadism is an international identity that has challenged the modern international system at different levels. The ideology of this movement has been theorized by the Arab Islamists and it receives most of its forces from the Arab world. The process of expansion More

Takfiri jihadism is an international identity that has challenged the modern international system at different levels. The ideology of this movement has been theorized by the Arab Islamists and it receives most of its forces from the Arab world. The process of expansion and consolidation of the contemporary international system in the Arab world coincides with the birth and development of takfiri jihadism in this region. This research questions the role of the international system in the spread of radical political Islam in Arab societies. The research conducted in this area shows that the crisis in nation-state building, identity crisis, crises caused by modernity or the social or religious contexts of violence in Arab and Islamic societies have been effective in the tendency of the Arab world towards this radicalism. Using constructivist and post-colonial theories, this research shows that the Arab world's understanding of the modern international system, which is a function of the evolution of this system, has faced a paradigm shift over the past century, and this change has created the ground for the role of takfiri jihadism. Is. In the new paradigm of the modern international system, it is completely denied according to the understanding of political Islam. This system is considered an evil structure against Arabs and Muslims, and Jihad against it and all its henchmen is a priority for Arabs and Muslims. Manuscript profile

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