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Fall of the Sasanian Empire to the Rashidun Caliphate

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The collapse of Sasanian rule in the mid-seventh century removed state sponsorship from Zoroastrianism in its heartland. The subsequent decline of Zoroastrian population in Iran took centuries and its causes are debated in the literature: jizya taxation and legal disadvantage, social and economic incentive, episodes of coercion, and voluntary conversion are all argued, with the balance disputed. The event marks the reversal of the elite-adoption mechanism, not a single moment of change.

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  1. Story
  2. The collapse of Sasanian rule in the mid-seventh century removed state sponsorship from Zoroastrianism in its heartland. The subsequent decline of Zoroastrian population in Iran took centuries and its causes are debated in the literature: jizya taxation and legal disadvantage, social and economic incentive, episodes of coercion, and voluntary conversion are all argued, with the balance disputed. The event marks the reversal of the elite-adoption mechanism, not a single moment of change.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Islam
  5. Zoroastrianism
  6. Elite and state adoption as a diffusion mechanism
  7. Limits of religious diffusion
  8. Fall of the Sasanian Empire to the Rashidun Caliphate
  9. Connections
  10. Zoroastrianism
  11. Islam
  12. Limits of religious diffusion
  13. Elite and state adoption as a diffusion mechanism
  14. Limits of religious diffusion
  15. Indian Ocean maritime trade network
  16. Fall of the Sasanian Empire to the Rashidun Caliphate
  17. Zoroastrian migrants reach Gujarat — the Parsi settlement
  18. Indian Ocean maritime trade network
  19. Bukhara
  20. Kashgar
  21. Arab conquest of Transoxiana
  22. Battle of Talas
  23. Mecca (Makkah)
  24. Jerusalem (Old City)
  25. Malacca (Melaka)
  26. The Hijra — the Muslim community's migration from Mecca to Medina
  27. Fall of the Sasanian Empire to the Rashidun Caliphate
  28. Construction phases of the Great Mosque at Kilwa Kisiwani
  29. The ruling house of Malacca adopts Islam
  30. Measured global religious composition, 2010-2020
  31. Church of the East (Nestorian Christianity)
  32. Zoroastrianism
  33. Measured global religious composition, 2010-2020
  34. Fall of the Sasanian Empire to the Rashidun Caliphate
  35. Zoroastrian migrants reach Gujarat — the Parsi settlement
  36. Malacca (Melaka)
  37. Ashoka (Ashoka Maurya)
  38. Council at Pataliputra and the despatch of Buddhist missions (traditional account)
  39. Armenia's traditional adoption of Christianity as state religion
  40. The 'Edict of Milan' — toleration and restitution in the Roman Empire
  41. Aksum adopts Christianity under King Ezana
  42. Fall of the Sasanian Empire to the Rashidun Caliphate
  43. The ruling house of Malacca adopts Islam
  44. Evidence
  45. Following the fall of the Sasanian Empire to the Rashidun Caliphate in 651 CE, Zoroastrian communities in Iran declined over centuries under a combination of fiscal disadvantage, social pressure, episodes of persecution and conversion, and some groups migrated eastward and by sea to India.
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