Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Zoroastrians

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The Parsis of India examines a much-neglected area of Asian Studies. In tracing keypoints in the development of the Parsi community, it depicts the Parsis' history, and accounts for their ability to preserve, maintain and construct a distinct identity. For a great part the story is told in the colonial setting of Bombay city. Ample attention is given to the Parsis' evolution from an insular minority group to a modern community of pluralistic outlook. Filling the obvious lacunae in the literature on British colonialism , Indian society and history, and, last but not least, Zoroastrianism , this book broadens our knowledge of the interaction of colonialism and colonial groups, and elucidates the significant role of the Parsis in the commercial, educational, and civic milieu of Bombay colonial society.

Parsees --- Zoroastrians --- Ethnic identity --- History

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"After the Muslim conquest of Iran in the 7th century, devoted Zoroastrians emigrated to India, where the growing community came to be known as Parsis. This Parsi settlement had increasingly little contact with Iran over the succeeding centuries until the 19th century, when a romanticized notion of their ancestral homeland led them to reestablish contact with Iran and the remaining Zoroastrians there. The Parsis had thrived under British rule of India and so they were able to strengthen their ties to Iran with philanthropic work. Meanwhile, Iranians were coming to romanticize their own ancient history and saw the Parsis as a living embodiment of this history. The Iranian neo-classicism of the 20th century that helped to establish a sense of Iranian national identity is usually ascribed to European contact, but Marashi argues that this growing relationship with the Parsi community was an important element that influenced the development of modern-day Iran"--

Parsees --- Zoroastrians --- History. --- Religious adherents --- Parsis --- Fire-worshipers --- Iran

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Zoroastrianism --- Parsees --- Zoroastrians --- Zoroastrisme --- Parsis --- Zoroastriens --- Zoroastrisme -- Inde --- Zoroastrisme -- Iran --- Guèbres

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The second Muslim caliph, Umar ibn al-Khattab, once reportedly exclaimed, 'I do not know how to treat Zoroastrians!' He and other Muslims encountered Zoroastrians during the conquest of Arabia but struggled to formulate a consistent policy toward the adherents of a religion that was neither biblical nor polytheistic. Some Muslims saw Zoroastrians as pagans and sought to limit interaction with them. Others found ways to incorporate them within the empire of Islamic law. Andrew D. Magnusson describes the struggle between advocates of inclusion and exclusion, the ultimate accommodation of Zoroastrians, and the reasons that Muslim historians have subsequently buried the memory of this relationship.

Islam --- Zoroastrianism --- Zoroastrians --- HISTORY / Middle East / Iran. --- Relations --- Zoroastrianism. --- History. --- Islam. --- Parsees --- Religious adherents