Iraq after the Muslim Conquest - Michael G. Morony
PEOPLE children were employed almost entirely as domestic labor, including some cloth production, in the households of the new e ...
Part III RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES ...
Introduction THE ethnic diversity of early Islamic Iraq was matched only by its religious diversity. There were Magians (or Zoro ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES forms of religious education that emphasized doctrinally laden liturgy, by weekly congregational worship, ...
INTRODUCTION peoples, but only harrassed them."6 By the late Sas ani an period they had all three. The importance of Iraq for de ...
Chapter 10 MAGIANS MAGIANS were a ruling minority in Sasanian Iraq but they were not totally representative of the Persian popul ...
MAGIANS THE PRIESTHOOD Since Magianism was the state religion of the Sasanian empire, the priestly hierarchy paralleled its admi ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES judgment seat (Gk. bema) before the assembled people of the town.^23 Late Sasanian seal impressions attest ...
MAGIANS The Magian priesthood combined these judicial responsibilities with ritual duties such as attending to the fire cult, pe ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES Fig. 6. The Magian Fire Cult (see also fig. Id., reverse) erty.-controlling institutions. Fires that were ...
MAGIANS judge who was in charge of religious matters-was the head of the hirbadhs, who were responsible for religious matters, j ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES As Bailey, Zaehner, and de Menasce have pointed out, written copies of the Avesta must have been rare; Ave ...
MAGIANS "reliance on Mihr" is paralleled by the motto "reliance on Yazdan" found on fourth-century seals.^54 The yazdiin were wo ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES occur in Avestan texts. Such expressions are more complete in the Videvdat, which was composed in the Part ...
MAGIAN S personification of Infinite Time and the father of the twin personifi- cations of good and evil, Ohrmazd and Ahriman. I ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES was translated into Middle Persian in the third century. This tradition was revised in the mid-sixth centu ...
MAGIANS Zurvanism also tends to be associated with a form of atheistic materialism that asserted the eternity of the material un ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES practiced idolatry and all sorts of other vices. Mazdaeans sought to stamp out the cult of the rival demon ...
MAGIANS Personal cult acts included liquid offerings to water and food of- ferings of thin, round, unleavened wheat cakes (M.P. ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES from father to son. Hirbadhs also taught children to memorize and recite the Yashts by shaking their heads ...
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