Reconstruction of the History of Iranshahr in Imperial Ideology of Khosrowan

The history can be an instrument for rulers to reconstruct the history in a way that they could represent their own power and to justify their own rule. According to this view, the recorded historical data does not have any correspondence with actual historical data. Therefore, the reported information is only a special interpretation of past events. Consequently their representation indicates only historian's values and ideology and reproduce a particular image and meaning for the readers. This representation, inside the historical text, can be transmitted to the reader due to a purposeful order and discipline. As an example, Khoday-namags and other texts written and collected by Khosrow 1st and 2nd were written according to this view and are considered as a preliminary source by Islamic historians in the first centuries in the Islamic era. This critical study aims to identify and elaborate the royal ideology belonging to the stories of the mentioned kings. The study concludes two kings, with respect to their existing social crises, were seeking to restore and consolidate their legitimacy and cultural acceptance for the Sasanid rulers by reconstruction of the history of Iranshahr through its propagation in the 6th and 7th centuries .