Mādayān ī Hazār Dādestān

Madayan i Hazar Dadestan, meaning Book of a Thousand Judgements, is a Middle Persian legal treatise and the only surviving pre-Islamic Sasanian legal document devoted solely to jurisprudence, compiled by the jurist or theologian Farroxmard i Wahraman sometime after the twenty sixth year of the reign of Khosrow II from court transcripts, legal records, and scholarly commentary. Its roughly 37 chapters address debts, contracts, marriage, slavery, the transfer of property, guardianship, and commercial transactions, presenting real and imagined case histories rather than a systematic law code. Unlike later Persian legal writing that blended law with religious instruction, the work is purely secular, making it a rare scholarly record of Sasanian legal practice and social structure independent of religious doctrine. It reached Western scholarship through J. J. Modi's 1901 facsimile edition, published after Maneckji Limji Hataria donated the manuscript to his library. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/