The sin of the woman : interrelations of religious judgments in Zoroastrianism and Islam / Fatemeh Sadeghi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ṣādiqī, Fāṭimah, 1970 or 1971- author.

Series:

Islamkundliche Untersuchungen ; Band 336.

Islamkundliche Untersuchungen ; Band 336

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (162 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Klaus Schwarz Verlag, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Since the 1920s, the so-called “return to the roots”, has become a hegemonic discourse in Iran. Whereas the Pahlavi regimes (1925–1979) propagated the myth of the lost idyll of pre-Islamic Iran representing themselves as the true inheritors of those monarchies, the Islamists adopted a respective approach in regard to Islam. As a result, a similar fairytale was made about the early Islamic community. Such claims, as it were, are not so much about the past as they are about the present. So is this study. By delving into the past, it questions the widespread nostalgic notions considering the pre-Islamic era as a lost utopia, wherein women were free from the restrictions “imposed by Islam”. In point of fact such past is a fabrication. In the majority of cases, therefore, the revival projects invent traditions to legitimize current political agendas.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

A Note on Persian and Arabic Transliteration and Translation

Preface

Introduction

Chapter I: Women in the Sasanian Zoroastrianism

Chapter II: Zoroastrian Dadestan: From Sasanian Era to Islam

Chapter III: Purification

Chapter IV: Islam and Menstruation

Chapter V: Sexual Relations in Zoroastrianism and Islam

Epilogue

Bibliography

Glossary

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783112209424

3112209427

OCLC:

1198930494