IMAGES OF TYRANT KINGS IN THE WORK OF ALISHER NAVOI "TARIHI MULUK-I AJAM"

Abstract

"Tarih-i Muluk-i Ajam" is a historical work of Navoi, but it also describes views of the great thinker on equitable king and state and about cruel kings. This article analyzes the views of Alisher Navoi on the tyrant kings of ancient Iran, like Zahok binni Madoris, Dara Binni Darab, Khurmuzd Binni Anushirvan and his dreams about equitable kings, as well as advice of the thinker to the kings and princes-contemporaries. Also studied the role of this creativity of Navoi in development of ideas about equitable and tyrannical kings existed in the Oriental literature.

Keywords

• alisher navoi
• history
• ancient iran
• tyrant king
• equitable king
• princes
• state.