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Justice as the Restoration of Order in Jami's Tale of Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz

This concept examines the central theme of Jami's tale, in which Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz (the 'second Umar') revives the celebrated justice of his forefather Umar ibn al-Khattab, making kingship and caliphate equal under one measure of fairness. The poem depicts mountain-dwellers who had fled the oppression of the former ruler's army returning to the road to inquire about the fate of the tyrant and the character of the new king. They receive the good news that under his just rule the predatory order has dissolved: the wolf no longer terrorizes the flock and the lion abandons its bloodthirstiness, so that lamb and wolf coexist in peace. Through this pastoral allegory the tale illustrates the ethical-political ideal that just governance restores security to the weak and transforms a society ruled by fear into one of harmony.

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Updated 2026-07-19

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Persian Literature Prerequisite Course