The Role and share of Woman in Ferdowsi Shahnameh stories has been as a controversial issue among the experts. Some claimed misogynistic stands for the Shahnameh while others denied such an attitude. The current research purposed to review the character, role and the co More
The Role and share of Woman in Ferdowsi Shahnameh stories has been as a controversial issue among the experts. Some claimed misogynistic stands for the Shahnameh while others denied such an attitude. The current research purposed to review the character, role and the contribution of women in Shahnameh Stories. The character of any Shahnameh woman is peerless and unique; such as their roles that are not similar in all stories and have different weights and frequency in each part of the Shahnameh: the mythology part, the heroic-epic part and the historic part. This article, at first, discussed the general atmosphere about women in Shahnameh stories and then reviewed the various roles of women in the tales and finally, analyzed each character and function of each woman in the trend of each story and tale.
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