Zoroastarian Khazars?

Zioneer

Banned
So hear me out, I've got an idea.

What if the initial Muslim invasions are more brutal to the Zoroastrians, and rather than fleeing to the hated Romans or staying in dangerous Persia, a portion of the Zoroastrian Persians (nobility and their priesthood, and perhaps a few thousand peasants) flee north to the Khazars? Could the Khazars be converted to Zoroastrianism?
 
Why? The nobility was the first to convert along with the urban population. In any rate, the Zoroastrian hate of the Nomads is contradictory to the Khazars.
 

Zioneer

Banned
Why? The nobility was the first to convert along with the urban population. In any rate, the Zoroastrian hate of the Nomads is contradictory to the Khazars.

Did the Zoroastrians really hate nomads that much? Huh. Didn't know that.

Anyway, if not the Khazars, then could the Zoroastrians flee anywhere else and have their religion become the majority religion?
 
Did the Zoroastrians really hate nomads that much? Huh. Didn't know that.

Anyway, if not the Khazars, then could the Zoroastrians flee anywhere else and have their religion become the majority religion?

The Zoroastrians had a hate for the 'thieving nomad' who was the enemy of organized agriculture.

Well, where would they? The thing is that with a more pronounced persecution the nobles will want to retain their power so they'll convert quickly. Same with the urban population.
 
An idea, although it is certainly a round about way of getting what you want:

In OTL, one of the reasons that the Khazars converted to Judiasm in OTL was that they wanted the prestige that came from having a Monotheistic religion, while remaining culturally independent of both the Byzantines and the Arabs.
What if, rather than choosing Judiaism they chose to convert to Zoroastrianism? According to Wikipedia, Khagan Bulan converted to Judiaism after grilling a Christian and Muslim about the merits of their religion, and eventually coming to the conclusion that Judiaism after both admitted that, if they had to give up their own faith, they would become Jewish, rather than convert to their opposite number.
I doubt the truth of the story. The Khazars enjoyed good relations with the Byzantines and not with the Arabs. By becoming Jewish, they were able to exert their independence from the Byzantines, remain free from the Muslims, but still get the respect they wanted by being Monotheistic.
Zoroastrianism would, generally, give them this very same thing.
 
An idea, although it is certainly a round about way of getting what you want:

In OTL, one of the reasons that the Khazars converted to Judiasm in OTL was that they wanted the prestige that came from having a Monotheistic religion, while remaining culturally independent of both the Byzantines and the Arabs.
What if, rather than choosing Judiaism they chose to convert to Zoroastrianism? According to Wikipedia, Khagan Bulan converted to Judiaism after grilling a Christian and Muslim about the merits of their religion, and eventually coming to the conclusion that Judiaism after both admitted that, if they had to give up their own faith, they would become Jewish, rather than convert to their opposite number.
I doubt the truth of the story. The Khazars enjoyed good relations with the Byzantines and not with the Arabs. By becoming Jewish, they were able to exert their independence from the Byzantines, remain free from the Muslims, but still get the respect they wanted by being Monotheistic.
Zoroastrianism would, generally, give them this very same thing.

Not really. Zoroastrians would be treated as enemies as a national state by the Arabs because of the potential for them to rally the Zoroastrians in Iran as well as giving a place for the Persian nobles to go to. I don't think the Khazars want to take that risk.
 
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