Sīyāsatʹhā-yi tanawwuʻ-i farhangī-i ḥukūmat-i Shīʻī-yi Āl-i Būyah: bā muqāyasah-yi sīyāsatʹhā-yi Jumhūrī-yi Islāmī-yi Īrān

This scholarly study investigates the cultural diversity policies adopted by the Shīʻī Būyid dynasty, which governed extensive territories across Īrān and Iraq during the fourth Islamic century. Drawing on thematic analysis of historical sources, the work examines how the Būyid rulers managed a remarkably heterogeneous society encompassing diverse ethnic communities — including Persians, Arabs, Turks, Kurds, Daylamites, Gilites, Lurs, and Balūch — alongside adherents of Islam in its Shīʻī and Sunnī forms, as well as Zoroastrians, Christians, Jews, and Ṣābians. The study explores the administrative, cultural, and social mechanisms employed by the Būyids to maintain cohesion across this pluralistic realm, assessing the degree to which their governance reflected assimilationist, pluralist, or unity-in-diversity models of cultural policy. A substantial comparative chapter then evaluates these medieval precedents against the ethnic, religious, and sectarian policies of the contemporary Islamic Republic of Īrān, illuminating points of continuity and divergence between classical Shīʻī statecraft and modern governance frameworks, with particular attention to the lessons available for contemporary Islamic civilisation-building.