Intellectual Foundations of Writing Government Book

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 professor of Politics, Politics and Economics Faculty, Shahid Beheshti University

2 Researcher/Beheshti university

Abstract

According to the issue in relation with writing siasatnameh or government book in the history of political thought in the middle centuries of Iran, the article is to review the intellectual foundations of this trend and considering five principal factors, it is to clarify their conceptual aspects in the texts related to theologue and government book.
These five elements are divine majesty, justice, togetherness of religion and politics, ashah and ideal monarch. In this regard, the article has endeavored to investigate these concepts towards the identification of their components and to illustrate the way of their dependency on one another.
The hypothesis of this article is that the collection of these concepts is not the elements separate from each other; moreover, there is a kind of systematic relationship between them so that in each concept, there exist the meanings of other concepts being of imperceptible presence but identifiable

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