zoroastrianism

In a world without Islam (let's just say Muhammad dies a sickly infant or something along those lines), an assumption is that Christianity is a religion which does better without the Islamic Conquests with how the Middle East and North Africa were very much centers of Christianity prior to the...

IOTL, An Lushan had a shot in overthrowing the Tang Dynasty. Had his forces captured the Tang Emperor and his family as they tried to evacuate Chang'an, the Tang Court's resistance towards the Yan Rebels likelyh would have fragmented. Little known on this forum was the fact that An Lushan and...

With the beginning of the Arab conquest of the Sasanian Empire from 632 AD onward, shah Yazdegerd III spent the rest of his reign constantly fleeing further and further east: first to Hulwan, then Isfahan, Istakhr and finally Merv, in Khorasan, where he was eventually murdered. Suppose the...

Reading about the history of Zoroastrianism is a fascinating and tragic one. Once the dominant religion of Iran, after the Arab Conquests, Zoroastrianism slowly declined as its followers were persecuted in their own homeland. However, Zoroastrianism survives as one of the oldest religions in the...

Zoroastrian migration to the subcontinent occured somewhere around 7-9th century due to increased persecution by the Caliphate (destruction of the Fire temples, etc). They settled around areas like the Sindh, Gujarat and Maharashtra. The rulers of these areas while fascinated by the religion...

Mardavij was a Zoroastrian Persian warlord who, in five years, conquered a large portion of what is now Iran, creating a state that stretched from the Caspian Sea to Shiraz and from Hamadan to Isfahan. However, he was murdered in 935 and his kingdom fell apart soon after, quickly being reduced...

So the son of Peroz III, Narseih was going to Persia, or more specifically the Persian steppes to be restored to the sassanian throne with the aid of a noble named Pei with the backing of the Tang Dynasty. Apparently the plan was to liberate transoxiana, and then restore Peroz III's rump state...

Your challenge is to have the majority of the Turkic peoples be Zoroastrian.

Zoroastrianism was once one of the most prominent religions in the world. Once Iran was conquered by the Muslims, however, it began to decline. Now there are fewer than 200,000 Zoroastrians left, though it's growing more popular in Iraqi Kurdistan, so we may see them significantly expand in...

A weird scenario that recently came to my mind. So, Assume that Persia either manages to beat Byzantium into submission (or at least complacence) at the culmination of the Byzantine-Sassanian Wars in the early 7th century, thus attaining the top dog position in western and middle Asia for the...

If the Persian Empire governs Jerusalem during the time when the Christianity was born, what would that Christendom be like? Would it have existed? Where would it spread?

Inspired by a recent thread on Hinduism and Zoroastrianism trading dates I came to thinking can Zoroastrianism survive in greater numbers by spreading to China? My thinking was that naturally, if it were to spread there it could synthesise with Chinese philosophy, culture etc such as concepts...

IIRC after the Muslim conquest of Persia, there were some Zoroastrian remains in the north that held out until the 9th century or so. Now, is it possible for this Zoroastrian kingdoms to not only survive but invade southwards Asturias-style? I'm thinking primarily about the Anarchy of Samarra...

With a POD no earlier than 600 AD wank the Sassanid Empire and Zarathustrianism as much as possible.

As it said, if Artabanus was victorious, killing Ardashir, and stillborn the Sasanian Empire. What now? How much time does this gives the Parthians? Another rebel satrap overthrows Parthians, but instead continue the Pro-Hellenism tolerance of the Parthians? (And not the OTL Sasanian Empire...

IOTL, Mardavij was a persian warlord who belonged to the Ziyarid Dynasty. He, surprisingly, was a zoroastrian, despite the fact that Persia had been under muslim control for 280 years before his reign. Mardavij was known for his conquests in the persian heartland, taking control of cities such...

"Stellaris is an odd name to call a ship." Alvi said, rubbing her chin as she looked at the shape being built up in the scaffolds. The young scientist had only recently arrived from Thorholm, and her newness to this sort of environment showed in the wobble to her steps as she adjusted to...

So just revisiting an old idea of mine -- what if (1) the Neo-Babylonian Revolt of 627 BCE was put down by a more competent successor to Ashurbanipal, and (2) the Assyrian Empire endures more or less at its then strength for about another century? Additional ideas from linked TL -- Lydia will...

Today there are only four religions whose faithful exceed 1% of the world's population: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism(and arguably a fifth, if we include the nebulously defined Chinese religious/philosophical traditions). And of those four/five, Christianity and Islam have a...

Before the Arab conquest of Iran, it was the state religion of Persia, but under Arab control, it suffer much under Muslim rule. It's shrines were destroyed, libraries were burned, the persecution of Zoroastrians became more common and widespread. Once was the oldest and largest religious...