Background due to the central role of textbooks in cultivating studentschr('39') personalities, their content needs to be evaluated. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to evaluate the content of social studies textbooks based on the character education approach. Method the present research method is mixed, which was done by combining the methods of documentary studies, fuzzy delphi and content analysis. The research community included texts related to the research topic. In addition to, the social studies textbooks for high school, the statistical population consisted of professors working in the universities of Hamadan province in the fields of theology, educational sciences and psychology, 40 of whom were purposefully selected as statistical samples. All the content of the mentioned books was examined in an all-numerical way. The sampling method from the research community was available, which continued until theoretical saturation was reached. For data collection, from the repertoire, researcher-made questionnaire, and researcher-made content analysis checklist were used, and Shannon entropy method was used to analyze the data. Results the findings indicate that experts have reached a consensus on the 9 components of the character education approach, and that attention to the components of the character education approach in the content of social studies textbooks does not have a normal distribution, but is unbalanced. Conclusion Review of social studies textbooks is essential based on the components of the character education approach, because some of the components of the mentioned approach that could have a major role in cultivating studentschr('39') character in order to acquire good moral habits, practice moral behavior and understand moral values and act based on it, have been neglected in the content of the mentioned books and others have received little attention.