The role of Iranian elites and poets in the scientific - literary movement of the era of Akbar Shah Gorkani (1556-1605)

Subject Areas : Epistemological and methodological researcher of historical research

Rohama Bordbar ¹ , mahmood seyyed ² , Reza Dehghani ³

1 - ph.d student
2 - faculty of Azad university
3 - Associate Professor, Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran

Received: 2023-03-27 Accepted : 2023-07-01 Published : 2023-08-23

Keywords: Iranians, India, Great Mongols, Akbar Shah, science and literature,

Abstract :

Akbar Shah as the greatest Mughal king of India, in order to complete his policy of free thinking and religious tolerance in the multi-religious and multi-ethnic society of India, he ordered prominent works of Hindu, Christian, Buddhist and other religions in the fields of religious, historical and literary to be translated into Persian language. In this way, during his period, a translation movement was launched in which Iranians living in India played a prominent role, so that Iranian elites, translators and poets can be considered the main pioneers of this translation movement.The purpose of this article is to study the role of Iranian elites in the scientific-literary movement of Akbar Shah's era, and accordingly, the main question of the research is, in which fields and disciplines did Iranian elites play a role in the scientific-literary movement of Akbar Shah's era?The findings of the research show that the Iranians living in India were not only the promoters of science and literature in the period of Akbar and the subsequent Mughal rulers, but also greatly helped the growth, expansion and deepening of the Persian language in India. The research method in this article is the descriptive-analytical method and the method of collecting information is the library method.