Conceptual history of Tadbir-e-Manzil in the period of Translation Movement and its sociopolitical implications
Subject Areas : علوم سیاسیHossein Sharif Ara 1 , Morteza Bahrani 2
1 - Department of Political Science, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Associate Professor, Institute for Social and Cultural Studies (ISCS)
Keywords: translation movement, Conceptual History, Tadbir-e-Manzil, Oikonomia, Divansalary,
Abstract :
The concept of Tadbir-e-Manzil (household management) is a concept in history of political thought in Islam. It refers to management of household and the way family members participate in carrying out and regulating the affairs of Manzil (household). With the aim of achieving a new understanding of Tadbir-e-Manzil and its formation and evolution in its semantic domain, this article’s question is a question about the origin and the nature of its concept, its semantic evolution, and its sociopolitical implications within the framework of its conceptual history and in the period of translation movement. The period during which the process of translation causes an environment of cultural exchange that introduces a possibility of semantic comparison of concepts in relation to their sociopolitical realities. Studies show that Tadbir-e-Manzil in its conceptual origin and in its sociopolitical reality in ancient Greece as Oikonomia, has been a support to the concept of Greek citizenship, in relation to its ethics and economic production status. And then in the course of its semantic transition and change to the realm of the Islamic Iranian civilization, it has been selected and applied as Tadbir-e-Manzil by Moslem scholars in relation to Islamic sociopolitical realities as well as Islamic acting space of translation movement. In fact the main issue is that Tadbir-e-Manzil, in an obvious difference with ancient Greek Oikonomia, has been used in accordance with Islamic political reality based on individual Islamic morality and political obedience. Tadbir-e-Manzil presents Islamic innate and sublime tendencies in achieving prosperity. It also gives continuity to the acting of political reality based on Divansalary as a system managing house and household.
