The Effect of Religion on Resilience Skills in Ferdowsi’s

Shahnameh and its characters have been repeatedly investigated but the present study aims at investigating the effect of religion on resilience skills in the loftiest religious myth of Shahnameh, Esfandiar. Shahnameh is one of the best grounds for researching the background of Iran’s culture and it contains chivalries, sacrifices, and so forth. The main question dealt with herein is how much has been religion effective in rearing resilience skills inside the religious character of Shahnameh, Esfandiar? This article is laid on the foundation of the assumption that religion-oriented individuals feature proper resilience against problems. After offering explanations about Esfandiar’s resilience, religiousness, and behaviors as extracted from Shahnameh, the present article shows that Esfandiar has exhibited proper resilience when being on the path of religiousness. Then, explicating the life of Esfandiar, it was discerned that this mythical character possesses various dimensions in his life and he has been sometimes subjected to Zoroastrian teachings and occasionally under the influence of the environment in which he has grown up. It will be concluded in the end that Esfandiar displays appropriate resilience under the conditions that he has been exercising religious methods for religious purposes but he has not had suitable resilience under the conditions that he has been pursuing corporeal and worldly objectives.