الأوضاع الاجتماعية للاقلية الزرادشتية بين الاندماج والعزلة 1796-1925

Abstract

Zoroastrians clung to their social and religious traditions on the ancient heritage, and were keen to preserve them throughout the period of their presence in Iran. These practices coincided with the social, political and religious development resulting from Iran’s conversion to Islam and the transformation of the Zoroastrian religion into a minority in the Muslim majority society.

Thus, the features of the social structure in Iran gradually became evident in its modern form at the end of the nineteenth century, in which

Zoroastrians struggle in their closed neighborhoods to enable their youth to continue to practice the heritage of their ancestors and imitate them in their rituals, worship and feasts.

Accordingly, the general course of development exploited the new political site to achieve a kind of integration into the majority society, provided that there would be no infringement on their privacy, but if possible, a reciprocal effect between the sects, as in their unification and celebration with the Iranian society on Nowruz, the famous Zoroastrian feast.

The axes of the research below discuss those inherited traditions and their survival and the extent of Zoroastrianism's commitment to them.