The king selection during the Parthian period relying on the theories and internal and external, historical Sources

Subject Areas : Epistemological and methodological researcher of historical research

mohamad taghi fazeli ¹ , farzaneh ahmadi ²

1 - استادیار گروه تاریخ دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد شوشتر، شوشتر، ایران. [e-mail]
2 - دانشجوی ارشد تاریخ باستان، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد شوشتر، شوشتر، ایران. [e-mail]

Received: 2017-10-27 Accepted : 2018-11-29 Published : 2018-05-22

Keywords: Historical Sources, inheritance, Parthian, king selection, parliament of Mahestan,

Abstract :

The Parthian Empire or Parthians 247 B.C 224 A. C, alsohas been known as the Parthian Empire ,they have been one of the Iranian political and cultural powers in Iran, which have ruled for much of Western Asia for 471 years . But this long period of government has been unfavorable conditions from historical sources. On the one hand, it hasn,t done the least mention them in the Persian and Arabic sources or indirectly has reflected in this literature . On the other hand, the references that have been mentioned to king selectiion in the rule of the Parthians thed have related to the writings of Greek and Roman writers. Straubon says that the Parthian monarchy has been the selected, namely, the nobles and elders of Majesty Mahestan (according to Yostenlyus Senate parliament ) have appointed the king. According to the sources, it has been spoken from the different ways of king selection. At first , The Parthian period has been further influenced by the tribal system who has appointe as king the largest tribal man that a king could identify directly his son or brother as his successor that this pattern has been most affected under the tribal and eastern system and sometimes it has beeb influenced under the Hellenistic system.