A study on the political marriages in pre-Islamic period of Iranian history

Abstract

Women have played an important role as spouses or mothers in Iranian society and the married women and the mothers with many children were respected in the past in Iran. Although, in some historical periods, desires and will of woman in selection of her husband were honored but most of the marriages of convenience were done without considering desire of spouses and generally, woman left her family and got married without her content. This article tries to investigate samples of such marriages in Iran in pre-Islamic period and in Persian literature in order to study the consequences of such attitude in the society by survey on the reasons for political marriages.