AU - yazdanfar, sareh AU - shiri, ghahreman TI - Social role and status of women in one thousand and One Night and the Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE TA - mdrsjrns JN - mdrsjrns VO - 4 VI - 2 IP - 2 4099 - http://clrj.modares.ac.ir/article-12-5512-en.html 4100 - http://clrj.modares.ac.ir/article-12-5512-en.pdf SO - mdrsjrns 2 AB  - Women in the book of “One thousand and one nights” and “Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh”, various social roles, sometimes positive and sometimes negative, are responsible; the role and position of women in two somewhat different. More tales One thousand and one nights, unlike the shahnameh, the loathing of women begins. At the beginning of this story, it seems that she is defeated and surrendered, but it is not so, but at the end of her affair with a feminine subtlety to spend, will win. In this paper with the method of descriptive-analytical, social status and role of women in two great works have been reviewed and compared. Most of the stories have been studied in this paper, which are responsible for a good female role. The results of this study indicate that the legend of the One thousand and one nights unlike the shahnameh, role of women in negative and sometimes mixed with evil of satanic. . CP - IRAN IN - LG - eng PB - mdrsjrns PG - 177 PT - YR - 2017