Identifying the Components of the Ideal Ruler in the Ancient Persian Mirror of Princes with a Special Look at the Javidan Kherad Mirror of Princes, the Tansar Letter, and the Ardeshir Babakan's Record

The ancient Persian epistles, in addition to containing pure moral advice and wisdom, contain many wonderful and interesting teachings in the field of practical wisdom, es-pecially the customs and methods of governing and how to govern. In Iranshahri politi-cal thought, the prince, as the basic core of this thought, must have special features and functions to be able to guide Iranshahr to order, security, prosperity, and progress. The ideological and theoretical apparatus we have considered for this study is to benefit from Foucault's ideas about governance. In this study, considering the many similarities that exist between governance in the metaphysical era, and the ancient Iranian mirror of princes; this theoretical device can adapt to the research topic. The main question of the research is what features should the Ideal prince have in the ancient Iranian mirror of princes? The basic hypothesis of the research is this: in the ancient Persian mirror of princes, the prince must have characteristics such as wisdom, justice, efforts to develop the country, religiosity, security, and law.