Religious Teachings in Seven Exploits of Rustam

Intellectual infrastructures of a literary work represent the planner’sknowledge and intuition. Shâhnâma is one of the selected literary worksin which the ideological dimensions of the author’s personality, as aShî‘a poet, is quite manifest. Many of the religious teachings offered inShâhnâma are directly originated from the Qur’ân. These componentsare noteworthy both in roots of religion such as: theism, monotheism,return to God, and justice and in branches of religion such as: prayer,jihâd (holy strive), and enjoining the good. This article mainly includesa research on haft khân-i Rustam (seven exploits of Rustam) from theideological and religious point of view and is written in the librarianstyle (based on sources and references), with the research findingspresented in a descriptive form. The haft khân-i Rustam has frequentlybeen dealt with and analyzed from different literary perspectives, but itsreligious teachings have been neglected; thus, this article can be helpfulfrom this viewpoint.