Iraq after the Muslim Conquest - Michael G. Morony
MAGIANS on late Sasanian administrative seals,89 but the only known example of such an official in action is that of Tahm-Yazdag ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES difference between Magians and non-Magians. Three customs in par- ticular-eating in ritual silence, consan ...
MAGIANS the late Sasanian period. This had probably proceeded further in Fars than in Iraq, however, where Magians were still vi ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES society who rejected priestly authority and material values in favor of ascetic, gnostic sects, such as th ...
MAGIANS aristocrats, including members of the house of Suren, were taking positions of leadership in the church and in monasteri ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES However, the Sasanian state did not initiate proceedings for apos- tasy. Mar Abii was denounced as an apos ...
MAGIANS Margha, so called because of the "leaning which its former lords and inhabitants had to Magianism."118 The picture of a ...
RELIGIOUS CO~MUNITIES and settled in Kufa and Basra became Muslims. A number of dahaqin also became Muslims in the seventh centu ...
MAGIANS Parvlz.126 After the Islamic conquest, the turn of the millennium was redated to the beginning of the conquest in 634, t ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES on the Arabs, destroy their masjids, abolish the cult of the devs, re- establish fire temples, defeat the ...
MAGIANS gians in Iraq perished during the Islamic conquest. Their association with the Sasanian state was at least partially res ...
Chapter 11 JEWS JEWS IN IRAQI SOCIETY The Jews were the oldest organized religious community in Iraq. As such, it was only natur ...
JEWS scendants of the exiles, the conversion of their neighbors and slaves, and possibly intermarriage. Its circumstances are re ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES tury A.D. that survived into the Sasanian and Islamic periods in reduced numbers,13 and there were Jews in ...
JEWS a population that was heavily Jewish and does not include the Jews in other parts of Iraq. Jews survived in early Islamic I ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES ample of the kind of popular Judaism that existed in such a mixed society is the use of a variant of the S ...
JEWS than other Jewish women.^42 The Persianized Jewish notables at Ne- hardea wore tall hats, had retinues mounted on horses an ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES By the sixth century, Jewish peasants in the Sawad were the tenants of non-Jewish landlords (dal;aqzn) and ...
JEWS distributed by three); a prayer-house, a bath-house, lavatories, a phy- sician, a barber, a scribe, and a teacher for child ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES wine press jointly with a pagan at Nehardea.^57 The town of Mata Mehasia near Sura, and a center of Rabbin ...
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