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Assistant Professor, Private and Islamic Law Department
Law i_ the history of Iran has stablished a great relation with
religion. This relationship between law and religion is not only found in Iran after the acceptence of Islam (7th century A.C.) but also in the Sassanide period before the appearance of Islam, we can see the communication of law and zoroastrian religion. Many of zoroastrian legal practices are still alive in the Islamic jurisprudence. For example in Sassanide period, the marriage between a zoroastrian woman and a non-zoroastrian man was
forbidden like the Islamic jurisprudence and actual Iranian civil. law in which a non-moslem man can not marry with a moslem woman. Likewise, the maturity age in some versions of zoroastrian texts is 9 in the case of girls and 15 in the case of boys like the popular Islamic legal theory