Analysis of the influencing factors on the Iranian ecosystem during the Safavid era (case study: travelogues of Sanson and Tavernier based on cultural imagery)

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1 associate professor of Persian of Language and Literature/ Persian literature group, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran.

2 Student of Persian Language and Literature, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran

10.30484/jii.2023.3407.1114

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Cultural imagery is the knowledge of knowing oneself from another point of view, through literary works, especially travelogues, with an emphasis on cultural-intellectual images; Therefore, the cultural study of the Safavid period, which is one of the prominent and important periods of Iranian history, based on the travelogues of Tavernieh and Sanson, helps to understand the characteristics of the culture of life and the factors that affect the ecosystem of Iranians in this period. The aim of the present research is to answer this question: What is the recognition of the image and the cultural role of political, commercial, social approaches and superstitious beliefs affecting one's life in the mirror of another view from the perspective of imagery? And this: What factors have been effective on the Iranian ecosystem during the Safavid era? The result of the research with a descriptive-analytical approach based on cultural imagery shows that the intellectual-cultural, political, social and economic policies and functional superstitious beliefs affecting the ecology and economy of the people of Iran during the Safavid era had factors such as: political, economic and cultural agents, The economic system and illegitimate commercial and tax policies, the negative function of the shah's unlimited power, the inefficiency of the shah's successors, and his role in the improper use of economic resources, have caused a crisis in people's lives and the emergence of public dissatisfaction, and the Safavid kings explained the long-term solution and Deserving have been disabled.

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  • Receive Date: 25 April 2023
  • Revise Date: 19 June 2023
  • Accept Date: 02 September 2023

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