هويت ايراني در ادب فارسي تا حمله مغول

Iranian Identity in Persian Literature up to the Time of Mongol Invasion

Identity could be considered as an individual or a social issue from different aspects such as religion, culture, etc. Literature provides the broadest horizon in culture, whose description of human social destiny discloses the main elements of identity. The most frequent elements of Persian identity, that is, basic Persian characteristics and cultural motives, have been presented similarly in structurally different literary genres. This article, deals with the study of the meaning of Iran and Iranian in a survey of Persian literature up to the Mongol invasion to find the most frequent cultural elements of Iranian identity in literature.