Presence and the Political by Farhang Rajaee

Author:Farhang Rajaee
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030594879
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Governance: Recognition, Friendship, Reverence/Glory

The primary function of theater, regardless of place and time, resides in its role as facilitator of governance within the parameters of the set ethos. The Muslim thinker Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406), a forerunner of the modern disciplines of historiography, economics, politics, and anthropology—a combination he himself calls the “science of civilization”—poetically captures governance within any polity with the image of a garden as follows:The world (al-‘alam) is a garden, the fence of which is the sovereign (al-dawla). The sovereign is an authority (sultan) through which life is given to proper conduct (al-Sunna). Proper conduct is a policy (siyassa) directed by the ruler (al-malik). The ruler is an institution (nizam) supported by the soldiers. The soldiers are helpers who are maintained by money. Money is sustenance brought together by the subjects (al-ra’iyya). The subjects are servants who are protected by justice. Justice is something familiar and through it, the world persists. The world is a garden… (1958: I: 81–82, minor editing in my part)

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