THE CONCEPT OF AN IDEAL SOCIETY IN NIZAMI GANJEVI'S POEM «ISKENDERNAME»

Kamala Nuriyeva

doi:10.51582/interconf.7-8.10.2021.015

Abstract

Throughout history, the concept of an “ideal society” and the idea of an ideal state structure have been the focus of attention of philosophers and poets. One of the first who gave a description of a utopian society in the Muslim east was Abu Nasr al-Farabi. After him, the idea of an “ideal society” was presented in his five poems by the Azerbaijani poet-philosopher of the XII century, Nizami Ganjavi. Almost all the works of the great Azerbaijani thinker Nizami Ganjavi are imbued with the idea of an ideal society, an ideal state and an ideal ruler. But a special place it is occupied by his last poem from “Hamse” – “Iskendername”. This article gives a brief summary of Nizami's philosophical thoughts about an ideal society, about an ideal ruler, mainly based on the poem “Iskendername”.

Highlights

Throughout history, the concept of an “ideal society” and the idea of an ideal state structure have been the focus of attention of philosophers and poets
A special place in the history of culture is occupied by the utopian teachings of the East and the West about the ideal state structure of a happy society
In the region of the culture of the Muslim East, Abu Nasir Farabi (870-950), known in the history of Islamic philosophy as a philosopher of Turkic origin, was one of the first who gave a description of a utopian society, a "virtuous city", developing an idea similar to Plato's teaching about the state

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Introduction

Throughout history, the concept of an “ideal society” and the idea of an ideal state structure have been the focus of attention of philosophers and poets. In the region of the culture of the Muslim East, Abu Nasir Farabi (870-950), known in the history of Islamic philosophy as a philosopher of Turkic origin, was one of the first who gave a description of a utopian society, a "virtuous city", developing an idea similar to Plato's teaching about the state. Almost all the works of the great Azerbaijani thinker Nizami Ganjavi are imbued with the idea of an ideal society, an ideal state and an ideal ruler.

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