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The persecution of Zoroastrians increased significantly under the Abbasids, temples and sacred-fire shrines were destroyed. [36] Also during Abbasid rule, the status of Zoroastrians in Persian lands was reduced from dhimmi —people who were protected by the state and generally considered ' People of the Book '—to ' kafirs ' (non-believers).
The interactions between Judaism and Zoroastrianism resulted in transfer of religious ideas between the two religions and as a result, it is believed that Jews under Achaemenid rule were influenced by Zoroastrian angelology, demonology, eschatology, as well as Zoroastrian ideas about compensatory justice in life and after death. [211]
The Parsis or Parsees (/ ˈ p ɑːr s i /) are a Zoroastrian community in the Indian subcontinent. [5] They are descended from Persian refugees who migrated to the Indian subcontinent during and after the Arab-Islamic conquest of Iran in the 7th century, when Zoroastrians were persecuted by the early Muslims.
They have also deplored and criticized many Zoroastrian rituals (e.g. excessive ceremonialism and focus on purity, [18] [19] using "bull's urine for ritual cleansing, the attendance of a dog to gaze at the corpse during funerary rites, the exposure of corpses on towers [for consumption by vultures and ravens]") [20] [21] and theological and ...
Persecution of Zoroastrians is the religious persecution inflicted upon the followers of the Zoroastrian faith. The persecution of Zoroastrians occurred throughout the religion's history. The discrimination and harassment began in the form of sparse violence and forced conversions. Muslims are recorded to have destroyed fire temples.
As many as 900,000 Jewish refugees fled or were violently expelled from Muslim-majority countries in the 20 th century (most in 1948 with the creation of the Jewish State) and 650,000 refugees ...
Persecution of Zoroastrians; ... Zaradusht defrauded his master, who cursed him, causing him to become leprous (cf. Elisha's servant Gehazi in Jewish scripture).
Jewish survival in the face of external pressures from the Roman Catholic empire and the Persian Zoroastrian empire is seen as 'enigmatic' by historians. [46] Salo Wittmayer Baron credits Jewish survival to eight factors: Messianic faith: Belief in an ultimately positive outcome and restoration to them of the Land of Israel.