Search Results for Zoroastrianism

... known of the bulk the form that texts These Turfan. near and in places cult various in and cave Dunhuang the in mostly territory, Chinese the in discovered texts who deciphered Sogdian Iranologists Grenet Frantz Hinduism and Manichaeism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, China...

... CE). This article investigates the sociopolitical upheavals of this period to explain the conversion of Iranians from Zoroastrianism to Islam as a two-stage process. The article argues that the Iranians first distanced themselves from conventional Zoroastrianism and followed insurgent leaders...

...Talinn Grigor This essay traces the Persian artistic revival of two separate but interdependent communities: the Parsis of the British Raj and the reformist Muslims and Zoroastrians of Qajar Iran. The two communities, with their own distinct, though at times overlapping, art historical developments...

... and exclusions, often coexisted paradoxically side by side with nationalism. Shared Indo-Iranian religious connections, either through Zoroastrianism or Islam, became grounds for new modes of imagining transnational solidarities, while viewing Persian as a beleaguered Asian lingua franca became a way...

... to the Chinese, both iconographic and textual evidence attest to the continuity of the indigenous Zoroastrian tradition in both Sogdiana and among the Sogdian communities from Turpan to Changan. Duke University Press 2011 The Sogdians: Prime...

... in this connection. This interpretation is supported by conclusive proof such as the use of ephedra until the present time in the ritual practices of contemporary Zoroastrian-­Parsis. The fact that Parsis have over the centuries brought ephedra from Persia and stored it in temple depositories further...

.... and early Turkish republican periods. Currently, she is working on a forthcoming manuscript “The Jenny Rose is a historian of religion, with a partic- Decadent Modern: Jazz, Charleston, and Cocaine ular interest in Zoroastrian studies. She currently...

... : Ashgate , 2004 . Fleming George . Travels on Horseback in Mantchu Tartary: Being a Summer’s Ride beyond the Great Wall of China . London : Hurst and Blackett , 1863 . Foltz Richard C. “ Zoroastrian Attitudes toward Animals .” Society and Animals 18 ( 2010 ): 367 – 78...

... affected by the Arabian climate. Parsis also played key roles in meat, salt, water, and drug provision. 10 Their centrality lies in a historical relationship with the EIC, and with another group, namely, Muslims. After the Islamic conquest of the Sassanid Empire, a group of Zoroastrians refusing...

... success, Iranian of to the Persian King Jamshid (of Firdawsi’s Shah- American cultural productions have become namah [Book of Kings]) and to the Zoroastrian increasingly abundant and yet, for now, remain prophet Ahura Mazda, from whom many of the organized on a grassroots level.23 Unlike larger...

... as by the Persian ecumene. Talinn Grigor traces the aesthetic practices of two separate communities using differing ideas of the Persianate: the Parsis of the British Raj and the reformist Muslims and Zoroastrians of Qajar Iran. She draws on examples of architectural structures to show how...

... market to set up shop and Zoroastrian (this group referred to themselves as Par- then broker a patron-client relationship with their sis), or Muslims. Beyond business and finance, the relative and the firm for whom they were working. pretexts for communications were many, including...

... Zoroastrians (Magi) in the second and final hemistich, who now issue the “I”-voice imperatives in a twist of the structure we've been brought to anticipate throughout the preceding lines of the ghazal. 47 It is as though the speaker-self takes the place of the “you” of address, and the Magi assume the role...

...: Cultural Reform in Qajar Iran. Her current research Les lycéens en Turquie” (Ethnologie Française, no. explores religious reform and “modernization” in 112 [2007 “Muslim Youth and Islamic NGOs in the Zoroastrian community in Iran and India in Turkey,” in Islam in Public, edited by Nilüfer Göle...

...- lished works is Roman Rule and Macedonian under Zoroastrianism astrianism: 1872–1914,” 1872–1914,” Yemen, ofOttoman Past the “Ordering include recent publications His Empire. Ottoman the with an emphasis on the Arab borderlands of imperialism...

...- tion as well (e.g., the Zoroastrians created their ministrative organization, and structure.15 They own hambāyīh), but they may have dealt with also provide information on the scope and de- other religious groups outside of their regional gree of economic activity, on who was in charge reach...

... Iranian Women’s Activism 302 consciousness that had been in the making in Zoroastrians. The sizable, varied, and semiau- Iranian society since the early 1800sandthat tonomous tribal population has been estimated was qualified by the nationalist context...

... of the Shah’s military had established Shia one. There are no allowances for Sunni repre- units in the Kurdish regions and threatened the new sentation in the parliament, although seats are re- regime. Tehran also feared what it saw as the Kurds’ served for Jewish, Zoroastrian, Assyrian, and Arme...

... such that Zoroastrian, Jew- If, then, Islam is to serve as the basis of an Iranian ish, and Armenian women, although they are not modernity, it must be a reconstructed Islam, purified commanded to wear the veil, nevertheless cover in of superstitions, as well as of erroneous or ossified the same way...

.... lectual environment in India attracted Zoroastrian Tavakoli-Targhi’s focus is also trained on how this thinkers and philosophers who chose exile in the wake Orientalist legacy has been internalized in Iranian histo- of the establishment of Shi’ism as the state religion of riography and cultural...