Document Type : Research Paper I Open Access I Released under (CC BY-NC 4.0) license
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Assistant Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili , Ardabil, Iran.
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Assistant Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili , Ardabil, Iran
Abstract
Political admonitions in Islamic Iran, as a rich intellectual heritage and a key tool for expressing government ideas, have played a fundamental role in shaping and perpetuating the ideological foundations of the royal institution. Inspired by the ancient model of Iranshahri landownership and intelligently combining them with Islamic values, these texts describe the duties, rights, and responsibilities of the king towards religion and subjects. While acknowledging the special nature of the period after the Mongol invasions and the emergence of local kingdoms, this article examines the ideological foundations of the royal institution through a case study of the book "Tarikh Shahi" - one of the most prominent political admonitions of the Islamic Middle Ages (7th century AH). This study, with a descriptive-analytical approach and based on textual documents, argues that the "Royal History" not only indicates the continuity of the tradition of writing admonitions in the Ilkhanate era, but also, contrary to some theories that the "kingdom with duties" disappeared in this period, reproduces and consolidates Iranshahri ideas in the form of an Islamic system by emphasizing justice, serfdom, the twinning of religion and state, and the central role of agents. The findings show that the royal institution in this work, beyond a purely political institution, is presented as a divine and moral manifestation that strengthens its legitimacy from the interactive and inseparable link between power, religion, and justice. This approach implies the continuity of a legitimizing discourse in the Iranian monarchy, even in the turbulent post-Mongol era.
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