An Introduction to Neighborhood and Its Conventions in Persian Literature

Abstract

Neighborhood is considered to be the smallest unit of urban life, and citizens who compose the residents of the neighborhood are called neighbors. In our religious and social literature, it can be said that social management starts with two small components “neighbor” (citizen) and “neighborhood”. These two components have basic roles in all of the relations of small and large social urban managements. Persian literature is the carrier of various sciences including social sciences and a part of science of management (governance and civil policy). It has also taken a look at these two components of urban and social management in Iran. Reviewing this literature can give us an image for understanding the relations of urban life in Iran and its historical culture and consequently exploitations in designing new urban life patterns and civilization in this age. This article is seeking to find this view briefly.