Investigating the Influence of Women in the Ruling System of Qara Khitai in Kerman Based on the Štefan Lux’s Third Approach to Power Theory

The influential role of women in government decisions and their covert and overt lobbies in succession-related issues have been pivotal to stabilized rule of Qara Khitai government as well as their deterioration and decline. The present study uses a descriptive-analytical method to investigate the power and influence of three influential women in Qara Khitai history, Oke Khatun, Turkan Khatun, Padeshah Khatun, within the framework of Štefan Lux's Theory of Power. He rejects active conflict as a determining element of power. The main question of this paper is concerned with the influence and lobby of women in the issue of succession in Qara Khitai ruling system. The findings of the study suggest that the intervention of women in the form of anti-war and lobbying strategies through various strategies such as politically motivated marriage, seduction, lure, propaganda and political campaigns, among other things, have been effective in transferring power.