The Effect of Women’s Capital on the Role of Domination in the Story of Khosrow and Shirin Based on Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Action

Khosrow and Shirin of Nezami is one of the well-known Persian verses in lyrical literature. In this story, there are four women with various capitals. They, through the conflicts of the story, confront special situations and unavoidably apply their capital toward their benefits. This research is an interdisciplinary study using references and library documents. This descriptive-analytical study analyzes the cause and quiddity of the pendulum (variation) of the lovers’ dominance in the mentioned verses from the sociological viewpoint using Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of action. Based on this theory, we can analyze different patterns of productivity of each of the characters according to their capital types and show the role of the capital arena and the mental orientation of woman in their life. In this study, the quadruple capitals of Bourdieu which involve financial capital, cultural capital, social capital, and symbolic capital were analyzed in line with the four prominent women of the verse (Mahin Banoo, Shirin, Maryam, and Shekar). The findings show that women possessing different quadruple capitals are active in different fields and are present in dominant parts, but because of the unbalanced capitals and ineffective use of them, none of them except Shirin attain consistency.