Review of the Persian Translation of Leviathan in the Light of Public Law Concepts

Legal expressions and concepts are abundant in the numerous fundamental texts of the modern political thought. The language of law has been one of the main means within which discussions about political thought has been taken place. Therefore, when these texts are translated into other languages, the meaning and the content of the legal expressions and concepts in terms of their scope and connotations shall be considered. Only in this situation one can rely on these translations and they deserve to be cited. So the revision and reconsideration of these texts from the legal concepts point of view seem very useful and necessary. In this paper, focus has been on the public law expressions and concepts of the Persian translation of the Leviathan and their precision and accuracy is evaluated.