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A Study on the Veil and Attire of Zoroastrian Women's in the Safaviet Era [PDF]

Taḥqīqāt-i Farhangī-i Īrān, 2012
The Safaviet regime introduced a new identity to Iranians that was based on the Shiite religion. The teachings of this religion gradually became manifested in the speech and the behavior of the society.
Ali Akbar Jafari
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The Dasātīr and the “Āẕar Kaivān school” in Historical Context: Origin and Later Development

Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2022
The present paper aims to offer a new understanding of the so-called “Zoroastrian Illuminative philosophers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,” namely the Āẕar Kaivān school.
Takeshi Aoki
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Tourism in Iran: central control and indigeneity [PDF]

, 2007
Iran has a long history and tradition of accommodating visitors and travellers, as well as having a great number of minority cultures within its borders, reflecting its geographic location astride some of the major trade routes in the Middle East ...
Baum, T.G., McLellan, L.R., O'Gorman, Kevin D.   +2 more
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Zoroastrian Funerary Vessels from South Kazakhstan

Поволжская археология, 2020
The paper describes two ceramic funerary vessels from Southern Kazakhstan. The first one is an oval elongated ossuary (solid, with no lid or ornamentation, on legs), discovered in the middle reaches of the Arys river.
Baitanayev Bauyrzhan A., Zheleznyakov Boris А.   +1 more
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A newly discovered Persian variety: the case of “Zoroastrian Persian”

Orientalia Suecana, 2020
Using a corpus of contemporary Yazdi Zoroastrian oral literature, this article demonstrates that the Persian dialect found in many Zoroastrian songs is different from both Standard Persian and local (Yazdi) Persian.
Chams Bernard
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Gay in the Sasanian period: some preliminary notes on its circular urban plan [PDF]

, 2018
This paper examines the Sasanian allegedly circular city of Gay, in the region of Isfahan. Material traces of the city have unfortunately been lost so we are forced to rely on Islamic literary sources alone.
Duva, Federica
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Totemism and Its Role in Negating Practice of Marriage among Siblings in Ancient Iran [PDF]

زن در فرهنگ و هنر, 2014
Marriage among siblings has remained a controversial subject in the study of ancient Iranian customs and rites, especially in regard to Zoroastrianism. There have been endless debates on the existence of such a custom in ancient Iran.
Reza Satari, Marzieh Haghighi
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Two New Pahlavi Inscriptions from Fars Province, Iran [PDF]

, 2018
First edition of two previously unknown Middle Persian inscriptions from the region of Fars in ...
Asadi, Ali, Cereti, Carlo G.
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Reversion, Revival, Resistance

Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer
Both in Iran and India, Zoroastrian communities have traditionally possessed a strong and rigid ethno-religious identity. In recent decades, however, debates regarding the opening of the communities to converts have become increasingly significant.
Benedikt Römer
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A comparative study of temporary marriage in Zoroastrianism and Islam [PDF]

زن در فرهنگ و هنر, 2015
In Zoroastrian law, there are several indications that denote to the temporary marriage as a legal institution and this can be compared to one law in Imami jurisprudence.
Hossein Badamchi, Kolsoum Ghazanfari, Parvin Davari   +2 more
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