Document Type : Research Article

Authors

• omid Ghiasi ¹
• Roozbeh. Zarrinkoob. ²

¹ PHD Candidate of History, University of Tehran

² .

Abstract

During the Sasanian period, many cities were built or renovated, and the historians of the first Islamic centuries have listed urban planning as one of the fundamental characteristics of the Sasanian kings. From the beginning of the Sassanid period and with the rise of kings like Ardeshir Babakan and Shapur I, the process of urban development began, and this process can be followed until the end of the Sasanian period and before the political turmoil caused by the murder of Khosrow Parviz. There have been some researches about the Sassanid cities, but mostly from the archaeological and linguistic points of view. Most of these researches have not achieved much success in establishing the relationship between the social issue arising from the objective existence of cities in the history of the Sassanid period on the one hand, and the conceptual world of the Iranian people in the Sassanid period regarding urbanization on the other hand, as a research problem. This research aims to turn the relationship between the social context in the history of the Sasanian period and Iranians' understanding of the city as a distinct settlement into a problem by relying on the method of conceptual history, and show how several layers of meaning at the end of the Sasanian period in this The concept was accumulated.

Keywords

• Sasanian
• City
• Village
• Ābādi
• Conceptual History

Main Subjects

• Social history