Peace and Security in Nizami’s “Sharafnameh”

Persian verse and poetry contain poems and stories on prevention of war and establishing of peace and security. Peace is a calm condition without any distress, dispute and quarrel that is considered ideal and security is an emotional, moral and emotive phenomenon in the mind of people, governors and authorities that assures peace and calmness in the society. Different meanings have been offered on peace in history and it is defined as antonym of war in Old Persian literature .Peace is not an absolute concept and it can be defined depended on religious and cultural perspective, so it deserves to study in different aspects. Most of the great poets and writers have employed these concepts in their poems and stories and considered it from different point of views and they have indicated the importance of peace and security. The great poets such as Saadi, Molavi, Hafez and Nizami have composed poems on peace and security and invited people to establish an ideal world. There are stories in Nizami’s Khamse of “Makhzanol Asrar, Khosorw and Shirin, Leila and Majnoon, Haft Payker(seven thrones) and Eskandarnameh involving Sharafnameh and Egbalnameh” that these stories can be studied from peace and security viewpoint. This article tries to investigate the examples of Nizami’s Khamse and analyze peace and security in these works.