The role and status of women in Vaghf institutions from Safavi until Contemporary Era (Case Study: Birjand, darmiyan, Sarbishe)

Shateri, Mofid; Arezoumandan, Razieh

doi:10.22059/jwica.2012.24392

The role and status of women in Vaghf institutions from Safavi until Contemporary Era (Case Study: Birjand, darmiyan, Sarbishe)

Authors

mofid shateri

Razieh Arezoumandan

10.22059/jwica.2012.24392

Abstract

Women, as half of the effectual population of Iranian society, have always been active in different aspects of life including social, economic, political and cultural ones. Entailment is one of their contributory areas of presence which has not been discussed much. In South Khorasan women entail some of their properties to charities symbolizing their benevolence and their status and economic independence. Since Safavieh era which was a new point in history in entailment in Iran until Islamic Revolution of Iran women have always been charitable. In this present research which is based on the documented studies, researches show that the most entailing women belong to Qajar Era and their entailments were mostly spent on Imam Hossein martyrdom rites with a descending trend unit the present day.

Keywords

Cultural and Social Institutions

South Khorasan.

Women’s property entailment