The Importance of Folk literature in Representing Social History: A Review of Hussein Kurd Shabestari's Fiction

Exploring non-historical and non-chronological sources, especially fictional sources (oral and written), which are in fact the collective mentality of common people and are a significant part of folk literature, can be a helpful approach to illuminate the dark and ambiguous atmosphere of social history, this article will explore different aspects of Iran’s social history in Safavid era. Considering the time of emergence and public distribution of this story, the present article can be helpful in the illumination of the history of Safavid era especially first Shah Abbas.