A study of the legal laws of Zoroastrian women in the first centuries AH,based on the text of the Pahlavi narrative

Subject Areas : Epistemological and methodological researcher of historical research

soheila kamjoo ¹ , Zahra Hamedi ² , Elham Malekzadeh ³

1 - Department 0f History,Darab Azad university, Iran
2 - Assitant professor of history, Darab azad university
3 - Assistant professor of History, Tehran university of humanities and cultural studies

Received: 2020-06-11 Accepted : 2021-03-09 Published : 2020-08-22

Keywords: legal rules, first centuries AH, Pahlavi narration, Zoroastrian women,

Abstract :

Pahlavis narration is a text in Middle Persian with relatively extensive information from religious commentaries and the ritual of Zoroastrian religion is stated in it. The identity of the author and the exact date of writing the text are unknown. But given the specific content and features of the text, it is almost certain that this writing dates back to the first centuries AH it has been written with the aim of explaining and protecting the teaching of Zoroastrianism. Based on the descriptive analytical method, the present study aims to investigate the situation of women in this Pahlavi text. And it seeks to answer the question of the legal status of Zoroastrian women in the first Islamic centuries according to the text of the Pahlavi narration, how wazs it?studies show that the achievements and legal independence of Sassnid women continue to be valid among Zoroastrian women in the first centuries AH,it was preserved and accepted in the context of womens family life they were not limited to their husbands.the research findings show that the author of the text to compel women to follow the code of the house with a relatively sharp tone in the form of jurisprudential religious injunctions, women have been assigned duties.