Persecution of Zoroastrians
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| Religious discrimination and persecution |
|---|
| By victimized group
Anti-clericalism |
| By method
Abuse · Art · Censorship · Desecration |
| Historical events
Cristero War |
Persecution is pivotal to Zoroastrians' sense of identity, and as the Jewish communities cannot be understood without an appreciation of the reality of antisemitism, so too the Zoroastrian experience of exclusion must be taken into account.[1]
In Iran, where Zoroastrianism has its roots, discrimination and harassment began in the 700s, during the reign of the late Umayyad Caliphs, whose dynastic predecessors had conquered most of the last Zoroastrian state by 652.[2][1][3]
It is only in recent times that Parsis have become aware of the extent of the oppression that their co-religionists in Iran had to endure.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Hinnells, John R. (1996), Zoroastrians in Britain, Ratanbai Katrak lectures, University of Oxford, 1985, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 303, ISBN 0-19-826193-4
- ^ Boyce, Mary (1979), Zoroastrians, their religious beliefs and practices, New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, ISBN 0-7100-0121-5
- ^ Nigosian, S. A. (1993), The Zoroastrian faith: tradition and modern research, Montreal: Buffalo, ISBN 0-7735-1144-X
