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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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A Comparative Study of the Crimes Leading to the Death Penalty in the Quran, Zoroastrian Legal Sources, and the Penal Code of the Islamic Republic of Iran [PDF]
Religious Inquiries, 2020 This paper aims to examine the death penalty in Zoroastrianism, the Quran, and the laws of the Islamic Republic of Iran. By studying antient Zoroastrian texts, we face a variety of crimes and punishments such as murder, robbery, adultery, magic, rape ...
Fariba Sharifian +2 more
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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British Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 65, Issue 3, July 2026.Abstract The current research examined how inclusive versus exclusive conceptions of national identity were associated with interreligious contact avoidance across relatively public (neighbours) versus private (marriage) domains among majority and minority religious groups.
Kumar Yogeeswaran +2 more
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Being there for mom: The strengths of daughtering
Family Relations, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 1703-1718, July 2026.Abstract Objective Daughters undertake daughtering, or the everyday role portrayal of contributing to a meaningful family relationship with their mothers, but the labor of it is often invisible. Background Using a strengths‐based approach, we investigated what daughters do well in their relationships with mothers.
Allison M. Alford +4 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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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. +1 more
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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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Brain and Behavior, Volume 16, Issue 6, June 2026.The figure presents an integrative model of sleep disturbances among Yazidi survivors of the 2014 genocide perpetrated by the Islamic State (ISIS). Genocide‐related trauma, including mass violence, sexual violence, displacement, and historical trauma, is associated with sustained neurobiological dysregulation, including hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal ...
Jan Ilhan Kizilhan +3 more
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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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