The Sin of the Woman: Interrelations of Religious Judgments in Zoroastrianism and Islam

Fatemeh Sadeghi

Published by De Gruyter 2020

The Sin of the Woman

Interrelations of Religious Judgments in Zoroastrianism and Islam

Fatemeh Sadeghi

Volume 336 in the series Islamkundliche Untersuchungen

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112209424

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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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	7
A Note on Persian and Arabic Transliteration and Translation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
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Chapter I: Women in the Sasanian Zoroastrianism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Chapter II: Zoroastrian Dadestan: From Sasanian Era to Islam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Chapter III: Purification Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Chapter IV: Islam and Menstruation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Chapter V: Sexual Relations in Zoroastrianism and Islam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
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- Main content: 162

eBook

Published: August 10, 2020
ISBN: 9783112209424

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Published: April 23, 2018
ISBN: 9783879974757