پژوهش های تاریخی (Aug 2014)
The crisis of legitimacy during the reign of Sarbedaran (1336 - 1381)
Abstract
Sarbedaran government was unique considering its social status, supporters, and religious affiliations among the numerous governments that emerged from all around Iran after the patriarch government collapsed. This factor demanded a special and different approach that they had toward the issue of legitimacy. On the other hand, the quality of political instability which was prominent in Sarbedaran, and specifically frequent dethroning and murdering rulers raises questions about the amount of success the government achieved in establishing legitimacy. The present article has a descriptive analytical method and through investigating the information from historic resources reveals that social status and different religious affiliations of Sarbedaran government made them not only unable to take a lot of advantage of conventional sources of legitimacy but also unable to make new sources as the result of legitimacy.
