State Studies of Contemporary Iran

State Studies of Contemporary Iran

Comparison of the origins of the policy-making system in the policy of Khwaja Nizam al-Mulk Tusi with bureaucracy in contemporary Iran.

Document Type : Policy making and political governance

Authors
1 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, Yasouj University, Yasouj, Iran.
2 Master of Political Science, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
3 PhD in Political Science, Yasuj, Yasuj, Iran.
Abstract
The present study was written with the aim of examining the contemporary implications of governmentality in the Siasatnameh of Khwaja Nizam al-Mulk Tusi.. It seeks to answer the question: What approach did the Siastasnama of Khawaj Nizam al-Mulk have towards policy-making and governance? Corresponding to the question posed, research findings were extracted descriptively and exploratoryally through text analysis method based on the book Siasat Nameh Khajeh. The research findings indicate that the approach governing the policy-making system in the policy document is a bureaucratic and institution-oriented approach, which was examined and analyzed in eight dimensions. Including; monarchy and social awareness, supervision and the bureaucratic system, the bureaucratic system and organizational communication networks, the prevention system and the priority of advice over punishment, the bureaucratic system and effectiveness and the prevention of tyranny and the triple prescription of "patience, consultation, faith". In fact, Khajeh emphasizes the supervision and control of power. By adopting the bureaucratic wisdom of Khajeh, it can be said that Khajeh's bureaucratic wisdom, because it relies on the native Iranian-Islamic tradition, was able to guide the management of bureaucracy. However, contemporary Iran, due to the bureaucracy arising from the culture of modernity, does not have the ability to lead the bureaucratic system because it does not have a serious basis on the foundations of the native Iranian-Islamic tradition and culture.
Keywords
Subjects

 Ghaderi, Hatem and Rostam Vandi, Taghi (2006). Iranshahri Thought: Its Coherence and Conceptual Components, Alzahra University Journal of Humanities, No. 59 (Scientific-Research), pp. 123-148. (In Persian)
- Hamdavi, Shahram; Kiakjori, Karim and Saberi Niko, Seyyedeh Zahra (2021). Reflection of good governance in the Siral-ul-Muluk of Khwaja Nizam-ul-Molk Tusi, Studies on the Islamic-Iranian Progress Pattern
- Roozbahani, Mohammad Reza (2018). Factors of the Survival and Disintegration of the State from the Perspective of Khajeh Nizam al-Molk Tusi, Collection of Articles of the International Conference of the Millennium of Khajeh Nizam al-Molk Tusi, Mashhad: Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. (In Persian)
- Omidi, Mehdi and Mohammadi Telefgerdi, Saeed (2024). Analysis of the concept of state orientation in the tradition of writing political letters in the Middle Ages (Comparative study of Siral-ul-Muluk, Kitab al-Nasiha and Siasat-nameh), Contemporary Iranian State Studies, 1(10), 113-140. (In Persian)
-Saremi, Hamid Reza and Jalali, Azadeh (2022). The manifestation of the Iranian-Islamic city in the political opinions and urban planning actions of Khajeh Nizam al-Molk Tusi, Quarterly Scientific-Research Journal of Social Theories of Muslim Thinkers, 12(1), 31-48. (In Persian)
Ayeni, V ( 1987). Nigeria bureaucratized ombudesman system: an insight into the problem of bureaucratization in developing countries, Public Administration & Development, 7(3): 309-324.
Arora, P.K (1972). Comparative Public Administration, New Delhi: Associated Publishing House.
- Badie, Bertran and Byrneboom, Pierre (2000). Sociology of the State, translated by Ahmad Naqibzadeh, Tehran: Baz Publications.
- Cronin, Stephanie (2004). Reza Shah and the Formation of Modern Iran: State and Society under Reza Shah, Jami Publications. (In Persian)
- Dufoucher, Henri (1998). Ethics (Ethical Concepts in Persian Literature from the Third to the Seventeenth Century), translated by Mohammad Ali Amirmoezi, Tehran: University Publishing Center and the French Society of Iranology in Iran. (In Persian)
Danaeifar, Hossein and Faghihi, Abolhasan (2011). Bureaucracy and Development in Iran: A Historical-Comparative Perspective. Tehran: Imam Sadeq University Press. (In Persian)   
- Ghaderi, Hatem and Rostam Vandi, Taghi (2006). Iranshahri Thought: Its Coherence and Conceptual Components, Alzahra University Journal of Humanities, No. 59 (Scientific-Research), pp. 123-148. (In Persian)
- Gholipour, Arian (2002). Sociology of Organizations: A Sociological Approach to Organization and Management. Samt Publications. (In Persian)
- Khajeh Nizam al-Mulk Tusi (2010). Siyar al-Mulk (Politics), edited by Hubert Dark, Tehran: Scientific and Cultural Publications. (In Persian)
- Manouchehri, Abbas (2016). Beyond Suffering and Dream: A Paradigmatic-Implicational Narrative of Political Thought, Volume 2, Tehran: Publisher of the Islamic History Research Institute in cooperation with the Humanities Research and Development Institute. (In Persian)
Peng, W.SH (2008). A Critique of Fred Riggs ecology of public administration, Public administration Quarterly, 528-548.
-Robbins, Stephen (2016). Fundamentals of Organizational Behavior, Translators: Ali Parsaian and Mohammad Arabi, Tehran, Cultural Research Office. (In Persian)
-Sarmad, Zohreh; Bazargan, Abbas; Hejazi, Elaheh. (2015). Research Methods in Behavioral Sciences. Tehran: Agah. (In Persian)
-Vaziri, Hossein (1992). Bureaucracies and their role in government, Management of Scientific Publications, 2(7), 73-94. (In Persian)
-Weber, Max (2003). Religion, Power, Society, translated by Ahmad Tadayin, Tehran: Hermes.
Websites
- Amiri, Mojtaba (2011). In Search of Iranian Bureaucracy, Roundtable in Sooreh Magazine. (In Persian)
Volume 11, Issue 2
Summer2025
Summer 2025
Pages 107-128

  • Receive Date 02 November 2024
  • Revise Date 19 February 2025
  • Accept Date 19 February 2025
  • Publish Date 22 June 2025