Minstrelsy: Religious Culture Discourse During Safavid Revision of Religious Narration in Zarrinqabanameh

Zarrinqabanameh by an unknown author, is a folkloric/ narrative chivalric poetic collection in national/ religious epic type. Its author has sometimes narrated the stories of collection from the language of an old jewelry person deemed a symmetry of oral/ audio narrations. Main question of this paper is: what role and effect do the minstrelsy collections including Zarrinqabanameh have on discourse of religious culture of Safadi? For answering this question, the subject of this paper was analyzed in an analytical method by using the library- documentary studies in quantitative method in selection of data and qualitative method in findings analysis. The conclusion is that the minstrelsy was a way for religious missioning and development during Safavid. The history of minstrelsy in Iran shows that from the 10th century Iranian people narrated stories and epic narrations in order to oppose the Arab domination to the appearance of Shiite and Suni placing against each other two groups of mask actors and virtue actors and especially during Safavid when Shahname actors and narrators developed and sometimes there was a conflict between the epic chivalric narrations and common religion, minstrelsy was an effective occupation on religious discourse of the age.