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Pre‐Manichaean Beliefs of the Uyghurs II: Other Religious Elements
Journal of Religious History, Volume 47, Issue 4, Page 586-603, December 2023., 2023 The original beliefs of the Uyghurs, which have been overshadowed by their conversion to Manichaeism and Buddhism, have not been thoroughly studied until recently. However, Uyghur inscriptions as well as Chinese and Islamic sources provide us with some information regarding their beliefs. In the first part of this article series, the Uyghurs' belief in
Hayrettin İhsan Erkoç
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Fifty-Seven Tracts: Shaybānī’s (d. 189/805) Aṣl/Mabsūṭ, Twelve Centuries On
American Journal of Islam and Society, 2021 In Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan Shaybānī’s (d. 189/805) al-Mabsūṭ, it is taken for granted that different nations (Jews, Zoroastrians, Christians, Muslims) may live inside a single moral-legal structure known as an abode (dār, pl. dūr).
Ahmad Atif Ahmad
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The critique of religion as political critique: Mīrzā Fatḥ ʿAlī Ākhūndzāda's pre-Islamic xenology [PDF]
, 2016 (Awarded the International Society for Intellectual History’s Charles Schmitt Prize) Mīrzā Fatḥ 'Alī Ākhūndzāda’s Letters from Prince Kamāl al-Dawla to the Prince Jalāl al-Dawla (1865) is often read as a Persian attempt to introduce European ...
Gould, Rebecca
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Survey Zoroastrians: Online Religious Identification in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 823-844, December 2023., 2023 Abstract This article contributes to the internationalization of survey methodology by discussing a case from a totalitarian state, the Islamic Republic of Iran. In 2020, GAMAAN (The Group for Measuring and Analyzing Attitudes in Iran) conducted an online survey on religion.
Michael Stausberg +2 more
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Wawasan, 2021 This article attempts to trace the fundamental role of early Persian beliefs, Zoroastrians, to the decision of Ahl al-Bayt’s choice to migrate to Persia (Iran). This research is based on the fact that there are many places for pilgrimage to imams in Iran.
Fatemeh Sadat Alavi Aliabadi +1 more
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Harvard Theological Review, 1912 The religion whose adherents call themselves “Worshippers of Mazda,” the Wise God, and which we commonly name after its founder Zoroastrianism, is in many ways of peculiar interest. It is the only monotheistic religion of Indo-European origin, as Judaism is the one independent Semitic monotheism.
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Dēnkard III language variation and the defence of socio-religious identity in the context of Early-Islamic Iran [PDF]
, 2017 The aim of the present paper is to illustrate as a case study, the linguistic and stylistic peculiarities characterizing the third book of the Dēnkard, one of the most authoritative texts in Zoroastrian Pahlavi literature (9th-10th CE). The analysis will
Terribili, Gianfilippo
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Refutations of “Heterodoxy”: Zoroastrians, New Christians, and Muslims against Manichaeans [PDF]
Religious Inquiries, 2019 The controversies and theological debates between different religions have always been an interesting topic for the scholars of religion. These debates were usually carried out in two ways: orally, in a meeting dedicated to these debates, or in writing ...
Seyyed Saeed Reza Montazeri
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The evolution and evolution of Savior Bauer's thought from the avesta of the earlier to the sources of Pahlavi [PDF]
مطالعات ادیان و عرفان تطبیقی, 2022 From Zoroaster time to the time when Avesta and other Pahlavi sources, under the title of Saviorism were written, lots of essential changes have taken place.Passing the centuries, the various historical events (like Alexander's attack), the diversity of ...
Shirzad Bastami +2 more
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Studia Religiologica, 2022 Zoroastrian Women in Temples: Places of Worship in the Perspective of the Zoroastrians Diaspora in the USA In this article, I approach the issue of temple visits by Zoroastrian women living in the ...
Paulina Niechciał
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