Nāder Šāh-e Afšār (1688-1747) was a person who used sleep and daydreams as a means to gain legitimacy from his power. It had emerged from the legacy of the Safavid period and, by using the political-religious functions of the dream, which was also a category in the Safavid thinking, tried to legitimize this dynasty in its last days in the official, historiographical text and by means of the meaning of dreams, in the form of a dignified act, to take the place of the Safavids. It is remarkable that even in the thinking of the masses, the fulfillment of a dream as a social product in connection with the legitimacy of the power of Nāder - at this point in a legend from Ḫorāsān - is integrated in the dominant political discourse, and Nāder is integrated with these two, in the face of one certain and widespread, general beliefs on the subject of dream images, the hidden-encrypted world and written truths, created a social thinking to legitimize the legitimacy of its power. At this point, the topics of sleep and daydreams in connection with the problem of the expression of power and its legitimacy relate to a part that is clearly visible and to another missing, spiritual-spiritual part that was confronted with the nāder with regard to its representation of power .
Ebrahimi,A. (2020). The position of the dream interpretation in the political-social legitimacy of Nāder Šāh-e Afšārs. Spektrum Iran, 33(2), 23-38. doi: 10.22034/spektrum.2020.185016
MLA
Ebrahimi,A. . "The position of the dream interpretation in the political-social legitimacy of Nāder Šāh-e Afšārs", Spektrum Iran, 33, 2, 2020, 23-38. doi: 10.22034/spektrum.2020.185016
HARVARD
Ebrahimi A. (2020). 'The position of the dream interpretation in the political-social legitimacy of Nāder Šāh-e Afšārs', Spektrum Iran, 33(2), pp. 23-38. doi: 10.22034/spektrum.2020.185016
CHICAGO
A. Ebrahimi, "The position of the dream interpretation in the political-social legitimacy of Nāder Šāh-e Afšārs," Spektrum Iran, 33 2 (2020): 23-38, doi: 10.22034/spektrum.2020.185016
VANCOUVER
Ebrahimi A. The position of the dream interpretation in the political-social legitimacy of Nāder Šāh-e Afšārs. SPIR, 2020; 33(2): 23-38. doi: 10.22034/spektrum.2020.185016
