An Analysis of the Relationship between the Territorial Identity and the Social Legitimisation Elements in the Safavid Thought

This paper discusses "territorial identity as one of the components of Iranian identity"; therefore, the weight and position of the land in the intellectual system and the social existence of human on the one hand, and the role and importance of the land in the social being and the collective identity of Iranians, are examined from the other side.
The idea is about the political thought of the Safavids and the elements of this thought and how to employ and adapt these elements to revive and strengthen one of the components of the identity of Iranians (land), as well as how the Safavids exploited the function of these elements to legitimize their state, is another aspect of the discussion of this article. The approach of the article to identity, is not fully static and unchanged and not fluid, whose results lead to the identity-fossilization or identity as the phenomenon of discourse and power, respectively, but this approach to the identity, believes in the persistence and establishment of some elements and characteristics in culture of nations, and on the other hand, believes in their dynamism and transformation.