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Religion in Iran has been shaped by multiple religions and sects over the course of the country's history. Zoroastrianism was the main followed religion during the Achaemenid Empire (550-330 BC), Parthian Empire (247 BC-224 AD), and Sasanian Empire (224-651 AD). Another Iranian religion known as Manichaeanism was present in Iran during this period.
The Faravahar is one of the symbols of Zoroastrianism, an Iranian religion. The Iranian religions, also known as the Persian religions, are, in the context of comparative religion, a grouping of religious movements that originated in the Iranian plateau, which accounts for the bulk of what is called "Greater Iran".
Manichaeans in Iran tried to assimilate their religion along with Islam in the Muslim caliphates. [70] Relatively little is known about the religion during the first century of Islamic rule. During the early caliphates, Manichaeism attracted many followers. It had a significant appeal among Muslim society, especially among the elites.
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Yazidism, [a] also known as Sharfadin, [b] is a monotheistic ethnic religion [c] that originated in Kurdistan [citation needed] and has roots in pre-Zoroastrian Iranian religion, directly derived from the Indo-Iranian tradition. [d] Its followers, called Yazidis, are a Kurdish-speaking community. [e]
In order to gain authority and instill public compliance to clerical decisions across different ethnic and social groups, the Amilis would borrow aspects of Iran's culture. With the Amilis acting as their representatives, the Safavids significantly shaped Iranian legal and doctrinal traditions and altered the political landscape of Iranian society.
Bábism (Persian: بابیه, romanized: Babiyye), also known as the Bábi Faith, [2] is a messianic movement founded in 1844 by the Báb (b. 'Ali Muhammad). [1] The Báb, an Iranian merchant-turned-prophet, professed that there is one incorporeal, unknown, and incomprehensible God [3] [4] who manifests his will in an unending series of theophanies, called Manifestations of God.
The Muslim conquest of Persia, also known as the Arab conquest of Iran, led to the end of the Sasanian Empire in 651 and the eventual decline of the Zoroastrian religion in Iran. Arabs first attacked the Sassanid territory in 633, when general Khalid ibn Walid invaded Mesopotamia (what is now Iraq), which was the political and economic center ...