Zoroastrians of Iran
A living tradition within Zoroastrianism.
Zoroastrians of Iran is a living tradition within Zoroastrianism. Also written Zartoshtis, Iranian Zoroastrians.
Origin
No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. NULL: the community that remained in Iran after the Arab conquest of the seventh century CE, becoming a religious minority through successive waves of conversion from the eighth to the thirteenth centuries; historically concentrated in Yazd and Kerman, latterly also Tehran. Not a sect but a community; included because the assignment treats communities as units of division and because the Iranian and Indian communities diverged in calendar and practice.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Zoroastrians of Iran.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-zoroastrians-of-iran.
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note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.