The strain between the zoroastrian heritage and Islam in Iran: a new perspective

February 2023 Guillermo Martínez Rabadán Abstract Since the Islamic conquest of Iran persistent elements of Zoroastrian Iran have proved controversial for Islamic dogmas imposed by different dynasties until the eighteenth century. The Qayar regime and under the Pahlavi regime, a policy of secularization that promoted the Zoroastrian heritage tried to awake Islam. This policy would later be persecuted by the

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Book release “Cyrus, king of ANSAN”

may 2022   The rise of Persia and the conquests of Cyrus cannot be explained by strokes of fortune or fate, nor can they be explained simply by a one-sided insistence on the decline of the states conquered by Cyrus or by the convenient assumption of the intrinsic superiority of Cyrus nomadic peoples over sedentary ones. Victories of such magnitude,

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THE AQUEMENID ROYAL ROAD IN CENTRAL ASIA

Text by Joaquín Velázquez Muñoz Article published in Revista Arqueología 2011, Año nº 32 Nº 359 The Achaemenid royal road was also projected in the northernmost regions of the Persian empire, that is, in Margina, Khorasmia, Bactria and Sogdiana. From Herat, in the Aryan satrapy, the road headed north to the oasis of Merv, from where, after crossing the desert,

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FROM SUSA TO ECBATANA. Two alternatives to the Achaemenid road

Joaquín Velázquez Muñoz. Article published in Revista Arqueología 2010, Year nº 31 Nº 356 The Achaemenid royal road that linked Susa to Ecbatana avoided the central Zagros (Lüristan) because the direct route through the land of the Cosseans was “bad, narrow and steep” (Diodorus, XIX, 19.2). In addition, it must be added that those mountain people demanded the payment of

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THE HEPTADIC ORGANIZATION OF GNOSEOLOGY IN THE IRANIAN CULTURAL TRADITION

Alfred Gutiérrez-Kavanagh – Professor of  RRII (Oriente Medio), UPC – Madrid Summary: Coinciding with our seventh Iranology congress, I have considered that it would be an appropriate forum to reflect on the concept of “seven” in the cultures of the Middle East, not so much from a merely numerological or symbolic perspective, but more rooted in the Archaeology of knowledge that

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