The position of the Isma’iliyyah in the ideas of Nizam al-Mulk and Ghazali

Iranian political thought was transformed in the Seljuq period. In this transformation, political power and administration of social affairs promoted the monarchy as a non – rival concept to the sphere of politics. In the plurality of causes and multiplication of contributions involved in this process, political writers, who rather than thinking, were also involved in stabilization of this pattern in practice, played a significant role. The setting requirements at the time, made political writers redefine the Iranshahri thought with regarding of the requirements of the Turkish domination period and as a result in this way, ignored the sharia instructions of justice commitment in the realm of discrepancy as well as the necessity of respecting the rights of dissidents and sacrificed those important instructions to the interests of the government and the security protection of the people. This study is based on the descriptive-analytical method and by using library sources, investigates the approaches of Nizam al-Mulk and Ghazali with regarding the ways of interaction with religious opponents, especially the Nizari Ismailia, and analysis of the reasons behind this way of interaction.