The framework social history of Iran's Shiites in the texts of local chronicles of the Safavid era

Dealing with social classes in historical periods provides openness to understanding the current situation and getting out of the current social blockages from the area of scrutiny in historical texts. The present research examines local chronicles in order to extract the criteria of reflection of social classes in these texts and the statistics of social class fields. The main question of the research is that the criteria of reflection of social classes in the social history of local chronicles depend on which type of volume, combination and convertibility of capital in the fields of social classes? Therefore, the main hypothesis of the research is that the camouflaged class structure in the social history of the Safavid era indicates the pyramidal hierarchy of capital. This research has been compiled using the three-stage coding of foundation data and relying on the developmental structuralism of the contemporary sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu, regarding the fields of classes and their quadruple capitals and is based on five sources of local historiography of the Safavid era, including “Aḥyā al-Mulūk”, “Gilan history”, “Gilan and Daylamān history”,” Šarafnāmeh and Ḵānī history”. The result of the current research is that, the field of governance or court in local chronicles has the highest volume and amount of combination and the amount of transformation of social, economic, cultural and symbolic capital for the hidden classes in it. The field of trade and property is in the second place and the field of culture, poetry and art is in the next ranks. Also, in the lowest order, it is the field of community, which has the lowest volume and lowest amount of composition and conversion of all types of capital for its classes.