مركزية عهد أردشير في الفكر السياسي الإسلامي

Abstract EN

Ardashir's Testament is a book including Ardashir's political advice to the Persian Kings who rose after him and he had mentioned lectures in it that he believed were necessary to be applied in running the kingdom, Recommend them that royal authority and religion are twins, one of which can not exist without the other, because religion is the foundation of royal authority and royal authority is the guard of religion, Anything that is not guarded perishes and Anything that does not have a foundation collapses, Ardashīr asserts the supremacy of the king over men of religion and avows that the king holds olute power in both secular and religious realms.

Thus, in an ideal state the men of religion are supposed to be obedient to the king.

Ardashīr's warning in his testament against the dangers of religion also supports the idea that his proclamation of the union of religion and kingship does not refer to an alliance between two different leaders.

Ardashīr warns his son/successors that the men of religion have the power to overthrow kingship, As a remedy for dealing with those men of religion who turn the people against the king, Ardashīr refers to his ancestors' solution, which was to defame such people by calling them heretics.

The defamation, according to Ardashīr, was enough to eliminate these people and rid the king of them.

These testaments exerted a great influence on Islamic political thought, This is what we find in the practices of sultans and princes, and what the texts of Mirror for the Muslim prince.