Policy letter writing – Iranshahri thought – Dr. Javad Tabatabai

Policy writing was the first trend that flowed from the source of Iranshahri thought at the dawn of the Islamic period of culture and civilization in Iran and continued in various forms until the introduction of the constitutionalism movement and even beyond that..

Of course, this point should not be left unsaid that Iranshahri's political thought and policy writing, despite its continuity in this, had the fundamental distinction that the basic element of Iranshahri's political thought was the concept of "Ideal King", while the policy writers, by creating a transformation in the foundation of this concept, They developed a theory that we have called "Theory of Really Existing Monarchy"..

On the other hand, this theory gradually became the main stream of political thought in the Islamic period of Iran, and with the gradual decline of thought in Iran, which provided the reasons for the decline of Iranian civilization and culture..

Especially the political philosophers created an unprecedented eclecticism of political philosophy and policy writing, as well as elements of Shariat writing, which was actually the "ideology" of a modern race, which Hakim Abolqasem Ferdowsi, centuries ago, had considered as one of the characteristics of the era of the destruction of Iran.…

Ibn Khaldun and social sciences
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Dr. Javad Tabatabai