Professor Maria Macuch The Zoroastrian Background of Sasanian Law

Professor Dr Maria Macuch The Zoroastrian Background of Sasanian Law Professor Dr Macuch was up to her retirement in 2015 Professor of Iranian Studies and head of the Institut fuer Iranistik (Institute of Iranian Studies) of the Freie Universitaet Berlin. She was President of the main association of European Iranologists, Societas Iranologica Europaea, from 2003-2007, is member of the Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum since 2007 and editor of the Series Iranica since 1993. Main areas of research: Pre-Islamic Iran; Zoroastrian and Sasanian law and its impact on other legal cultures, especially Christian, Rabbinic and Islamic law; Pahlavi literature and classical Persian literature. Maria Macuchs talk was about: The Zoroastrian Background of Sasanian Law Iranian law was based theoretically on Zoroastrianism up to the  conquest of Iran in the 7th century. As in other pre-modern religious legal systems, such as Talmudic and Islamic law, the fields of theology and jurisprudence remained intertwined to a very large degree. Zoroastrian norms comprised in an early historical period two main areas dealing with moral, ritual and purity rules on the one hand, and civil and criminal law, on the other. Although jurisprudence gradually developed into an individual discipline by the Sasanian period (3rd-7th centuries) religion remained its theoretical foundation and a large number of important legal institutions were founded on Zoroastrian norms. In this talk chaired by WZO Chairman Mr Shahpur Captain, Dr Macuch gave an overview of the historical development of Zoroastrian law and discussed how basic tenets were integrated into the legal system of the Sasanian state. Dr Macuchs speech can be viewed in the following video

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