ABDOLLAH SHAHRIAR; Ramin Sadeginajhad; maryam mohammadzadeh
Abstract
Abstract Welfare and social security are assigned as indicators of progress in developed societies. A review of historical documents and the social observations, ...
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Abstract Welfare and social security are assigned as indicators of progress in developed societies. A review of historical documents and the social observations, carried out by the historians of the Sassanid period, of Iran indicates that, during their reign, Sassanid kings have more or less tried to improve people's life standard. Ferdowsi's Shahnameh is one of the valuable works which narrates the events of that era. The main question of this article is whether there is some evidence on this very important issue of welfare and social security in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh? The findings of this analytical-documentary study indicate that for all four components of welfare and social security, namely social insurance, social services, social welfare and social assistance, there lies certain practical and obvious evidence in Shahnameh. This manifests the attempts made by the government to provide the high level of welfare and social security for the people of that era.
