خلاصة:
The ancient Persian epistles, in addition to containing pure moral advice and wisdom, contain many wonderful and interesting teachings in the field of practical wisdom, es-pecially the customs and methods of governing and how to govern. In Iranshahri politi-cal thought, the prince, as the basic core of this thought, must have special features and functions to be able to guide Iranshahr to order, security, prosperity, and progress. The ideological and theoretical apparatus we have considered for this study is to benefit from Foucault's ideas about governance. In this study, considering the many similarities that exist between governance in the metaphysical era, and the ancient Iranian mirror of princes; this theoretical device can adapt to the research topic. The main question of the research is what features should the Ideal prince have in the ancient Iranian mirror of princes? The basic hypothesis of the research is this: in the ancient Persian mirror of princes, the prince must have characteristics such as wisdom, justice, efforts to develop the country, religiosity, security, and law.
ملخص الجهاز:
Identifying the Components of the Ideal Ruler in the Ancient Persian Mirror of Princes with a Special Look at the Javidan Kherad Mirror of Princes, the Tansar Letter, and the Ardeshir Babakan's Record Mohammad Bagher Mansourzadeh1*, Zahra Massoud2 1Department of Political Thought, National Defense University, Shahid Beheshti Governance School, Tehran, Iran 2Graduate of Political Science, Political Sociology, Faculty of Theology, Law and Political Science, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran Received: 7 Sep 2020 ; Accepted: 20 March 2021 Abstract: The ancient Persian epistles, in addition to containing pure moral advice and wisdom, contain many wonderful and interesting teachings in the field of practical wisdom, es- pecially the customs and methods of governing and how to govern.
1. "Research Literature Background" In the course of evaluating and introducing the researches done on the ancient Persian mirrors of princes and the ideal prince as the basic proposition of Iranshahri political thought, many sources have been written; in this part of the research, we will briefly in- troduce some of these researches: I.
2) In this study, according to the method of exercising power in ancient Persia and go- vernance in Iranshahri political thought, Fou- cault's metaphysical governance model is considered as a framework of ideas in the present article.
Meta- physical thought manifests itself in the field of politics in the form of political myth, polit- ical jurisprudence, political wisdom, political mysticism, and political mirror of princes; and the works of thinkers such as Plato, Fa- rabi, Ferdowsi, and Saadi in the realm of the rule of the metaphysical era can be explained.