The theory of heroism in Iranian history (case study: Shah Ismail I Safavid)

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Full Professor of History, University of Lorestan, Khoramabad, Iran.

10.22126/tbih.2024.10114.1002

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Heroism reviews the role of the hero or prominent figures in the advancement of historical events, and its extreme form leads to ignoring the social conditions and contexts in the events.In the history of Iran, there have been many historians who have been influenced by this attitude and have described the life of a king and the events of his time in the form of writing Sultani monologues and with a world-opening and cosmopolitan view.One of these examples is Shah Ismail I Safavid, who is described as a supernatural savior hero and related to the divine world, and his wonderful life is depicted.In this article, the purpose of representing the character of Shah Ismail is the theory of the hero in history by the method of library and text research in historical texts.The research shows that the historians of the Safavid era highlighted Shah Ismail, that all the events were formed around the king-hero axis, and that social conditions and human factors played a role in the character of the hero's action.
 

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