Pandname-e-Yahyaviie, Window into the Thoughts of Amirnezam-e-Garrusi

Pandname-e-Yahyaviie written by HassanAlikhan Amirnezam-e-Garrusi, one of the dignitaries in the Naseri era, is considered as one of the advice books in the Qajar era. Reviewing, Reading out and analyzing it to determine its status in the Iranian traditional advisement works and familiarity with the author’s opinions and beliefs are the aims of this study. The need to recognize its importance lies in the understanding of the intellectual and political developments in Qajar period. Although one witnesses some archaism, nationalism or anti Islamic–Arabic approaches and tendencies in this period, Pandname-e-Yahyaviie adopts an Islamic approach. Pandname-e-Yahyaviie’s Islamic approach is a visible sign of the intellectual development in Iranshahr thought in the Qajar era. Keeping the format of an advisement book and using this language, concepts, religious, political, social, cultural, moral, literary and military doctrines and teachings are induced. This study uses library resources to address the issue under study. In this study, Pandname-e-Yahyaviie text was reviewed and analyzed as an advisement text.