The nature of rationalization in passing from ancient to Middle Age Iran; Transmission from mythical to the religious worldview

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Ph.D. Student, Department of Political Science, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Chaloos Branch, Islamic Azad University, Chaloos, Iran.

3 Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

For explaining Iranian transmission from the ancient period to the Middle Ages, we can adopt different approaches, of which Habermas's' structure of consciousness theory is one of them. Using this theory, the forward paper came to the conclusion that in the transmission of ancient mythical consciousness to the Middle Ages religious consciousness, Iranian political thought never cut its connection to metaphysics. In the ancient epoch, myths and Zoroastrianism were the most important sources of Iranian political thought, whereas, in the Middle Ages, Islamic sharia took this role. If, in the ancient period, the shah was pivotal in Iranian political thought, in the Islamic period, the prophet, in Ibn Sina, and the sage in Suhrawardi's view, got this place. In addition, in the ancient era, there was a general law known as Aša that governed simultaneously nature and society, whereas in the Middle Ages the sharia wore this cloth. The main question is how we can analyze the nature of worldview transmission from ancient to Islamic Iran. We hypothesized that the nature of transmission from ancient Iran to the Islamic period could be explained by Rationalization theory, i.e. Iran moved from a mythical worldview based on a dual vision to the Islamic worldview based on a monotheistic insight. The research method that we employed is a critical method that is mainly used by Frankfort school thinkers, including Habermas.

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