M.A. Thesis:

Moral and training teachings in Marzbannameh and Akhlagh-e-Naseri

Morality can be enumerated as humanity boundaries. These boundaries are formed by confluence of religion, culture and social scales. Different matters were maoral points for poets and writers because the history of Iran is full of ups and dowes during different eras and the invasion of foreigners coan be observed in different places. The root of morality in Persian literature refers to era before Islam and in this eras there are some books describing moral aphorisms such as pandnames and Andarznames. In post- Islam era which some fprt of philosophy either practical dimention or the retical dimention was dehisced and we can name differint examples of moral purports, and Akhlagh Naseri by Khaje Nasir- al- Din Toos: and Marzbanname are the most famous examples. Akhlagh Naseri is a book proceeding different moral categories from personal and daily behaviors to discussions about family and education of offspring and choosing of sponse and also social subjects. Marzbanname can be enumerated a social- Political work which formed in conditions that Al Bavand was in political weakness. This book etplains moral and axiomatic subjects in the shapeof stories. In the present thesis, moral purports in Marzbanname and Akhlagh Naseri will be considered. This thesis is done in a way that at firs a consideration about morality and its categories is done and generally these categories can be divided to miral refinement (moral merits and meannesses), political science, household management. Then with the study of Marzbanname and Akhlagh Naseri's texts, these purports are searched. Then some examples from the text are derived and mentioned according with analysis.

Keywords: Marzbanname, Akhlagh Naseri, political science, household management