Ideal Government From the viewpoint of authors and poets of 4th-7th centurt

Subject Areas : شاهنامه

Masih Bahramian ¹ (* Assistant professor of the Persian language and literature, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad branch)
maram bolouri ² (** Ph.D. student in the Persian language and literature, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad branch)

Received: 2017-12-18 Accepted : 2017-12-18 Published : 2012-05-21

Keywords: Justice, Ideal kings, Ideal government,

Abstract :

Kingship was considered as a divine glory for a long time in the culture and beliefs of Iranians. Although kings used to rely on their power by the aid of their wealth and oppression or by inheritance, they regarded the rights of governing as a gift of God and their own indisputable rights. Even if we verify this unstable idea, we should mention that there have been few kings in the history that appreciated the divine blessing to use it for the interests and benefits of the community. Most of them were the ones that used to oppress their subordinates for the continuity of their power and sovereignty, and sacrificed the peoples' safety and financial securities for their own insatiable desires. Our aim in this article is to point out to the characteristics of an ideal government by relying on 4th to 7th century (A.H.) literature in order to indicate how a government should behave to the community, for the people to feel peacefulness and security, to have a relative welfare.  Then, we have dealt with recalling the behavior and moral of the kings, who according to narrations of the poets and authors of that era benefitted justice and fairness, and proper governance has been seen in their life.  Clearly, what you are observing includes evidences extracted from literature contexts that could be compared with ideal governorships introduced by the philosophers and sociologists.

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