Reread of Ravandi’s Narration about the History of El-Selcuk Based on Foucault Panopticism Plan

Abstract

Texts are product of social and linguistic forces. That’s why we should not search the rules of the game in the texts themselves but in the institutional functions that produce them. Reading Ravandi's representation of Ale Seljuk History with the approach of critical discourse analysis shows that the text produced at the end of the Seljuk Empire reflected the set of dominant discourses in the Seljuk era. The relation between power and legitimacy that are characteristics of Seljuk era is reflected in this text as a general principle reproducing certain aspects of social identity. Religious discourses focused on power, opponent or centrifugal discourses and scientific discourses focused on policy get help from other discursive elements reflecting the discursive patterns of the era. Social agencies of the Seljuk Era contain ideological discourse organizations that through panopticon monitoring, connect with different groups in the institution of power.

Keywords

• power
• ideology
• discourse
• foucault
• rahat-al-sodour
• ravandi