The identity of Machiavelli in the Third Book of Masnavi Ma’navi ( a case study of the story “A King who killed Christians” based on the key concepts of Niccolo Maciavelli)
Subject Areas : Persian language and literature texts
1 - Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Payame Noor University, Iran.
Keywords: مثنوی, مولوی, story, Sociology, Masnavi, Moulavi, ماکیاولی, Machiavelli,
Abstract :
The western political, literary circles acknowledge Niccolo Machiavelli as an influential figure who played a major role in the shift of Renaissance into the intellectualism era in Italy. As a social reformist and political critic, he managed to influence public opinion on government, religion, aristocracy as well as people. Relying on his two works, i.e. “Kings” and “Speeches” the scholars in the area of political sociology take the concepts like (1)virtue, (2) chance, (3) separation of ethics and politics, (4) description of types of kingdoms, (5) the balance of classes, as the basics of his theoretical framework. The author of this article claims that the political moves conducted in the story of Molavi entitled “A King who killed Christians” matches significantly with this theoretical framework. As such, this paper first addresses the basics of that theory followed by the described and analyzed concepts in the story and finally the mapping of the story with the theory of Machiavelli. Finally, it is concluded that in the studied story, the pattern of governance on people is greatly consistent with Machiavellian definitions and expectations in many respects
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