Women and pilgrimage of shrines in Islamic jurisprudence

Pilgrimage of graves by women is a subject that its legitimacy and illegality is not such obvious according to Islamic legal Schools, because a comprehensive and systematic research was not applied. Therefore, askingabout the Islamic legal ordinance ofthis suchpilgrimage is required to review and study. The generalities and absolutes of the Grate Prophet`s tradition and his wife and his honorable daughter`s behavior about continuing the pilgrimage of the graves are of the evidence that legitimize thewomen`s Pilgrimage of graves; even they make it a recommended precept and theevidence that seem to deny it, state the requisites of a forbidden act which sometimes occur in the mentioned pilgrimage. This research was carried out based on the aim of knowing all of the Muslim jurists` words and viewpoints, limits and jurisdictions of their sources, and explaining the women`s duties in the pilgrimage of the shrines. In the shadow of describing and analyzing the jurisprudential propositions of the Islamic schools and collecting data bythe library method, obtaining this purpose became possible. The research is resulted that the women`s pilgrimage of the shrines be recommended , of course, provided that their behavior doesnot accompany with a forbidden act.