The Educational Tradition of Shiite Women in Safavid Society: Bintul Majlisi

Subject Areas : Iranian Sociological Review

Fahimeh Mokhber Dezfuli ^{1 *}

1 - Associate Professor of History and Civilization in Islamic Nations, Department of History, Faculty of Literature, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2024-07-13 Accepted : 2025-02-05 Published : 2024-12-08

Keywords: Key words: Safavid Society, Pedagogy, women, Iran, Amina, Shi'a Scholars ,

Abstract :

The Safavid era witnessed the convergence of Shi‘ism with political governance, reshaping Iran's societal and cultural landscape. The city of Isfahan has a long educational tradition of Shiite ‘Alimat and Muhaddithat. The practice reached to a peak during the Safavid era, and a large number of Iranian ‘Alimat appeared. They were often the members of the great Shiite scholar's family. Amina Begum, daughter of the great Safavid scholar Mulla Muhammad Taqi Majlisi. Because of her family situation and also the status of her predecessors, great women scholars in her family, as well as living at the capital of the Safavid as a magnificent place for several religious schools, she could reach to a position and achieved considerable works in Arabic literature and Shiite jurisprudence. The purpose of this paper is to consider Amina status among a number of ‘Alimat before and after her. Whether those women achieved their academic works during this period due to the possibility of studying at home, or it was a cultural feature of the Safavid era that the women could easily go to religious schools and qualified.  

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