فهرست مطالب seyyed ali asghar mahmud abadi

The intellectual, literary and scientific record of Mohtasham Kashani and Feyz Kashani is worth considering in terms of their political relations with the Safavid government. A comparison of these two worldviews shows that the influence of the discourse of the Safavid era and its cultural productions and direct intellectual structure on these two personalities caused them to interact with the Safavid court in two distinct ways and inevitably have two types of connections and dealings with it. A comparison of their relationship with the center of power and politics of the Safavid era shows that these two Kashani personalities, under the influence of political, historical and cultural contexts, intellectual foundations and psychological capacities as well as their life period established two distinct relations with the Safavid court, which was directly influenced by components such as their view of Shiism, their distance and proximity to the Safavid court, intellectual and literary interests and backgrounds, the critical spirit and the companionship and empathy with the court. In this study, we try to explain the role of this influence on their attitude towards the Safavid court and the results of each of these two attitudes, by examining the effect of the discourse and intellectual-ideological atmosphere of Safavid Iran on the worldview of these two Kashani personalities.

Cultural transformations at the time of Indian Timurid rulers are marked a turning point in the history of this land. Such transformations occurred in various spheres including authorship of rich written works. Among these works, the Quranic works, which are mainly quintessential either in the Islamic world or in the history of the Quranic studies in the Indian Subcontinent, hold an outstanding status. The authors of these works were Indian political figures or immigrant Iranians at the Indian Gurkanid court, who were also playing influential roles in the political and social domains. The present study benefited from interdisciplinary studies of History of Islam and Quranic sciences. Through describing and analyzing historical documents, it attempts to introduce political and historical figures involved in the Quranic studies in Timurid era, and reviews a number of their commentaries.