نشریه بانوان شیعه
پیاپی 1 (پاییز 1383)

The studies about women demand analysing the different aspects of various dimensions of the subject and through such kinds of studies we can have a clear idea of the real status of women in our past history. This research, which concentrates on Isfahan as the capital of the Safavid dynasty, expounds on women’s role in establishing religious buildings especially when we know that the religious policy of the Safavids was suitable for establishing buildings for the Shi‛ites.

Although Islam shows great respect for the followers of other religions, it limits social sentiments and close relationships with them to ties based on virtue and faith on the basis of divine religion. In many verses Muslims are prevented from having close relations with them. They warn Muslims from accepting non Muslim’s friendship, supervision or protection in their relationships.Considering all the preventive and precausionary measurments as a logical way of preventing intellectual, ideological deviations and foreign morals from infiltrating, Islam considers that the limitation in getting married to the people of the Book is justifiable.

In this article, the effect of the Shi‛ite the school on Iranian women is described. First the conditions of Iranian women in the period before the formal declaration of adopting the Shi‛ite school by the state is pictured in brief and then the influence of the Shi‛ite school on Iranian women is dealt with in an attempt to shed light on the role of the gatherings held for commemoration of the tragedy of Karbalā in forming contemprory Iranian women’s personalities and identities.Accordingly, the effects of the gatherings are enumerated first and then the political activities of women such as their role in movements and social revolutions from the time of the Qājār to the present are analysed.

Lady Sayyedeh Nusrat Amīn, one of the main pillars of Shi‛ite religious jurisprudence, was born of a very noble family which is descended from Imam ‘Ali (A.S) in Isfahan in 1247. After marriage, she learned a lot from the lessons given to her at home by such professors like Āyāti Izām Najaf Ābādī and Zifrii. After much effort she became an authority on divine law and she was granted permission to narrate by Sheykh Abdul Karīm Yazdī and other eminent figures. After a long life of hard work in refining the soul and training high-ranking students, this religious authority passed away in 1362.

This article is about the biographies, characteristics and virtues of four ladies, who have precedence in Islam and faith and among the special friends of the Prophet’s family. They are Asmā’ bint ‘umays who was Ja‘far ibn AbiTālib’s wife (Ja‘far al-Tayyār), Umm al-Fadl who was the wife of the prophet’s uncle, Salmā who was Hamza Sayyed al-Shuhadā’s wife and Maymuna, the Prophet’s wife. They were all born from one mother. "May Allah have merey upon the pious heavenly women" the Prophet said about them.