The Aura of Kings: Legitimacy and Divine Sanction in Iranian Kingship (Bibliotheca Iranica: Intellectual Traditions Series)

The Divine Glory or farr-e izadi (Old Persian: khvarnah) is an everlasting principle of Iranian political ideology usually invoked to project legitimacy of rule and divine sanction. In a world where the written word is scarce and, when available, is metaphoric and evasive, the pictorial document can be as valuable as text, and iconography can be developed into an essential tool of historiography.Abolala Soudavar is the author of 'The Aura of Kings: Legitimacy and Divine Sanction in Iranian Kingship (Bibliotheca Iranica: Intellectual Traditions Series)' with ISBN 9781568591094 and ISBN 1568591098.