Review of power and knowledge (criminology and punish) in some Persian prose texts by Foucault

Discussion about interaction between power and knowledge is one of the most challenging issues of Foucault's thought. Foucault's approach represents a reciprocal relationship between power and knowledge so that, as the producer of knowledge is power, the opposite is also true. In this sense power along with knowledge, plays a disciplinary role to greatly increase the disciplinary and Punish techniques of the society. Humanities and social sciences is one of the areas through which power -knowledge creates power relations-based discourses and results in authority and domination over mankind. In literature which allows the writer to declare his/her social and political thoughts, power-knowledge relationship appears latently, so you can see authors thoughts and ideologies apparently in his/her works. The use of Persian prose texts as the evidence of power’s hidden hand as Foucault believes, can reveal a big portion of its mechanism. In this article we will try to analyze power performance in the process of knowledge production in political sciences (criminology and punish) on the basis Persian prose texts.