• Italian proverbs
    • rbs Matrimoni e viscuvati, di lu celu su mannati. (Sicilian proverb) English translation: Weddings and spiritual matters are heaven sent. Meglio essere invidiati che compiatiti. English translation: Better to be envied th...
    • online books
    • ssion Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy http://www.ccel.org/t/tolstoy/confession/confession.html 2- Hadji Murad Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy http://www.ccel.org/t/tolstoy/hadij/ 3- Death of Ivan Ilych Lev Nikolayevich Tol...
    • 1-Sophie's World:
    • A Novel about the History of Philosophy Gaarder, Jostein This long, dense novel, a bestseller in the author's native Norway, offers a summary history of philosophy embedded in a philosophical mystery disguised ...
    • Iranian New Year
    • All Iranians, whatever their religious beliefs, language or origins and wherever they live, are strongly attached to Now Rouz (New Year). This festival, which does not feature in the Islamic lunar calendar, be...
    • Haft-Sin
    • Sin A ceremonial table called Sofreh-e Haft Sin (cloth of seven dishes), name of each dish beginning with the Persian letter Sinn. A few days prior to the New Year, a special cover is spread on to the Persian carpet or ...
    • World Water Day 2004:
    • 04: Water and Disasters Weather, climate and water resources can have a devastating impact on socio-economic development and on the well-being of humankind. According to the World Meteorological Organization weather...
    • Edward Caird
    • ird (3/23/1835- 11/1/1908) Scottish philosopher of the latter half of the nineteenth century, Edward Caird was one of the key figures of the idealist movement that dominated British philosophy from 1870 until the mi...
    • Days to NoRooz 1383
    • 1383 NoRuz 1383 begins at 10:18:37 AM Tehran time on Saturday March 20, 2004 NoRuz 1383 begins at 01:48:37 AM New York time on Saturday March 20, 2004 NoRuz 1383 begins at 00:48:37 AM Chicago time on Saturday March 20, 2...
    • Akira Kurosawa
    • awa ( 23 March 1910 - 6 September 1998 ) Japanese film director, considered with Kenji Mizoguchi and Yasujiro Ozu among the greatest of Japanese modern film makers. Kurosawa also collaborated on the scripts of...
    • THE REPENTANT SINNER
    • ER Leo Tolstoy 'And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy Kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.' -- Luke xxiii. 42, 43 . There was onc...
    • AL-QAMAR (The Moon)
    • e Moon) Name The Surah takes its name from the very first verseWan shaqq al-Qamar, thereby implying that it is a Surah in which the word al-Qamar has occurred. Period of Revelation The incident of theshaqq-al-Qamar (sp...
    • Proverbs of Ireland
    • land Every patient is a doctor after his cure. Neither give cherries to pigs nor advice to a fool. Soft words butter no parsnips but they won't harden the heart of the cabbage either. You'll never plow a field by turnin...
    • The Coptic Museum
    • um TheCoptic Museum in Cairo is a life-like record of one of Egypt's periods all fraught with various antiques and monuments reflecting the different civilizations that graced the land of Egypt starting by the Ancient...
    • Al-Azhar University
    • sity The world's oldest university and Sunni Islam's foremost seat of learning Al-Azhar university concerns itself with the religious syllabus, which pays special attention to the Qur'anic sciences and traditions o...
    • 1-Houses and Palaces of Andalusia
    • sia Patricia Espinosa De Los Monteros , Francesco Venturi (Photographer), Caroline Phipps (Translator), Patricia Espinosa De Los Montero , Patricia Espinosa De Los Montero About the Author PATR...
    • Stéphane Mallarmé
    • rmé (18 mars 1842-9 septembre1898) Stéphane Mallarmé was a French poet and writer . Mallarmé was a major French symbolist poet and rightly famed for hissalons, occasional gatherings of intellectuals a...
    • Marcus Aurelius
    • Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was the Emperor of Rome from 161 until his death. Born Marcus Annius Verus, he was adopted by the emperor Antoninus Pius in 138, and married his daughter Annia Galeria...
    • Ibn Khaldun
    • un ( 5/27/1332- 3/17/1406) Ibn Khaldun is the most important figure in the field of History and Sociology in Muslim History. He is one of those shining stars that contributed so richly to the understanding of Civilization. ...
    • Hans-Georg Gadamer
    • mer ( 2/11/1900-3/14/2002) Hans-Georg Gadamer, born Feb. 11, 1900 in Marburg, Germany, is best known for his important contribution to hermeneutics through his major work,Wahrheit und Methode (Truth and Method). His s...
    • Albert Einstein
    • ein (3/14/1879- 4/18/1955) Around 1886 Albert Einstein began his school career in Munich. As well as his violin lessons, which he had from age six to age thirteen, he also had religious education at home where he w...
    • Art History
    • ory Ancient Art Egypt Architecture The Sphinx The Sphinx is one of the best known monuments of Ancient Egyptian Architecture. Unusual to the form of most Egyptian pyramid structures, it stands as a sy...
    • The Philosopher’s Stone
    • one Hans Christian Andersen Far away towards the east, in India, which seemed in those days the world’s end, stood the Tree of the Sun; a noble tree, such as we have never seen, and perhaps never may see. The summit of t...
    • Verse of the week
    • eek "And (remember) when thy Lord brought forth from the Children of Adam, from their reins, their seed, and made them testify of themselves, (saying): Am I not your Lord? They said: Yea, verily. We testify."...
    • Human Individual
    • Everyone knows on any given day that there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that ...
    • online book
    • onary of Philosophy of Mind http://artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/dictindex.html 2- A JOURNALIST'S ONLINE:GLOSSARY OF RELIGION http://www.toad.net/~andrews/jhandbook.html http://www.toad.net/%7Eandrews/jhandbook2...
    • The Child Museum
    • seum http://www.touregypt.net/childmuseum.htm Science, technology, imagination, truth in the past, present and future; all interact to create a wonderful world for the Egyptian child, namely, theChild Museum. It is...
    • University of Isfahan
    • han http://www.ui.ac.ir / The University of Isfahan is beautiful and has a unique location. It is a state institution. The campus is located at the foot of the Kuh Soffeh (Soffeh Mountain) with an area of 4.5 mil...
    • Qurلn, Liberation and Pluralism
    • ralism Farid Esack 'This is a splendid piece of work, and should be read by all who care deeply that religions should change people and structures for better, not for worse.' MARTIN FORWARD, EXPOSITORY TIMES 'Esack has...
    • Hadith of the week
    • eek "O men! Be easy on yourselves, and do not distress yourselves by raising your voices, verily you do not call to One deaf or absent, but verily to One who heareth and seeth; and He is with you; and He to whom y...
    • Michel de Montaigne
    • ) 1224- 3/7/1274) Born to an aristocratic family living in Roccasecca, Italy, Thomas Aquinas joined the Dominican order while studying philosophy and theology at Naples. Later he pursued additional studies in Pari...
    • Rudolph Otto
    • to (9/25/1869- 3/6/1937) Rudolf Otto was born on September 25, 1869, in the town of Peine in the Prussian province of Hannover. His father owned a malt factory there. In 1882 the family moved to Hildesheim, and his f...
    • Michel de Montaigne
    • gne ( 2/28/1533- 9/13/1592) Writer, b. at the château of Montaigne, in Périgord, France, on28 Feb., 1533; d. there,13 Sept., 1592. His great-grandfather had been a Bordeaux merchant of wines, salt fish, etc., and it ...
    • Sermon of Imam Hussein to the Army of Yazid
    • zid "O people of Iraq! Listen to me and do not make haste to kill me so that I may tell you what I must, and apprise you of the reason for my coming to Iraq. If you accept my excuse, believe in what I say, and behave t...
    • Merits of Imam Husayn
    • ayn We should now like to quote some traditions relating to Imam Husayn from Ibn Athir's book entitled Usd ul Ghabah. A man asked Abdullah bin Umar: "What will be the position if the blood of a mosquito touches the d...
    • Imam Husseins Sermon on the Night of Ashura
    • hura "I thank Allah to the best of my ability and praise Him during the time of weal and woe. a Lord! I thank You because You have honored us by means of Prophethood taught us the Qur'an, made us comprehend the re...
    • Causes of the rise of Imam Husayn
    • ayn Truly speaking if we wish to find out the causes of the rising of the Imam we shall have to make a search for its preliminaries during a period of at least thirty years preceding that time, because about thirty yea...
    • WHERE LOVE IS, GOD IS
    • IS IN a certain town there lived a cobbler, Martin Avdéiteh by name. He had a tiny room in a basement, the one window of which looked out on to the street. Through it one could only see the feet of those who passed by,...
    • Afghan Proverbs
    • verbs -The first day you meet, you are friends the next day you meet, you are brothers. [Friendship grows into brotherhood.] -A real friend is one who takes the hand of his friend intime of distress and helplessness. [A ...
    • Heaven and its Wonders and Hell
    • Hell Emanuel Swedenborg http://www.theisticscience.org/books/hh/hh00toc.html 2- Angelic Wisdom Concerning DIVINE LOVE AND WISDOM Emanuel Swedenborg http://www.theisticscience.org/books/dlw/index.htm 3-ANGELIC...
    • University of Karachi
    • chi http://www.ku.edu.pk/ At the time of creation ofPakistan as a sovereign state in 1947, means for higher education and research were negligible. Responding to the impending requirement of higher learning, Pakis...
    • 1-The Philosophy of Schopenhauer
    • uer Bryan Magee This is a revised and enlarged version of Bryan Magee's widely praised study of Schopenhauer, the most comprehensive book on this great philosopher. It contains a brief biography of Schopenhauer,...
    • Karl Jaspers
    • rs (2/23/1883- 2/26/1969) Karl Jaspers (pronounced “Yaspers”) was born23 February 1883 in Oldenburg to Carl William and Henriette Jaspers, a respected family within the community. Carl was a lawyer, the local sheriff ...
    • John Steinbeck
    • nbeck (Febryary27,1902-December20,1968)         John Ernst Steinbeck ( February 27 , 1902 - December 20 , 1968 ) was one of the most famous American novelists of the 20th centu...
    • Irwin Shaw
    • Shaw (February27, 1913-May16, 1984) Irwin Shaw (1913-1984), born and educated in New York City, where he received a B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1934, Shaw began his career as a scriptwriter for popular radio prog...