The Legal System of Recognized Religious Minorities’ Members of Iran Parliament in the Light of Equality Principle by Vahid Agah, moein sabourian

“…According to the prevailing opinions on interpreting Article 64 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, religious minorities’ members consisting of the Zoroastrians, the Jews, the Christians (north and south Armenians, Assyrians and Chaldeans) are not augmentable in Iran’s parliament. …”
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Social Backgrounds of The Continuing Iranian Celebrations in The Islamic Early Centuries by abolfazl razavi, hamid ashrafi

“…This article in the light of three factors: the texture of the eastern territory of the Caliphate and the effort of Zoroastrians, social context and superiority of the Iranian culture and Arabian Baghdad and share of Shuubigary and approach of Iranian cultural- social, social contexts affecting the continuity of celebration focuses on the early centuries of Islam.Achievement of this research shows that purity of population and relative superiority of Iranian culture in the eastern territory of the Islamic Caliphate, Iranian influence`s share in development of Abbasid Caliphate and settling down in the emerging cities in Iraq, and most importantly, the formation of a conscious movement of Shuubiah and trying to exist and continuing of Iranian celebrations, had provided the causing of durability and existing of celebrations and ceremonies  The rituals as the more tangible Iranian culture and civilization, paved areas near the Iranian identity and in the convergence of Iranian culture within the Islamic principles had an extreme share.…”
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Investigating Pins of Iron Age of Iran and its Applications by کاظم ملازاده, Mohammad Hasan Salek Akbari

“…Also one of the functions that has been mentioned earlier in this article is its use as a tool to Ward off the ghosts and evil forces, as well as vile and harassing animals, which is still true for traditional societies and was the case with Zoroastrians from the Ancient and contemporary eras.…”
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Relics, Images, and Christian Apotropaic Devices in the Roman-Persian Wars (4th-7th Centuries) by Joaquin Serrano del Pozo

“…Moreover, I consider different factors, as the local religious practices or the rivalry between the Christian Roman Empire and Zoroastrian Persia. I argue that the earliest military uses of relics and holy images happened in the context of the Roman-Persian conflict and frontier region, and that, during the 4th-7th centuries, these uses were much more common there than anywhere else. …”
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A GENETIC STUDY OF IRANIAN POPULATIONS: RED CELL ENZYMES by P. Amirshahi, D.D.Farhud, E. Sunderland, Sh. Tavakoli, P. Daneshmand

“…A total of 1695 blood samples collected from ten ethnically distinct populations of Iran (Turks and Kurds of Rezaieh, Lurs, Aabolis, Baluchis, Turks and Kurds of Shrvan, Zoroastrians, Tehranis, and Kermanis) were examined for six polymorphic red cell enzyme systems, namely red cell acid phosphatase (AP), adenylate kinase (AK), phosphoglucomutase (PGM1), esteraxe D (ESD), adenosine deaminase (ADA), and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6-PGD). …”
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Manichaeism in the Uyghur written monuments by Kalikov Rustam

“…Manichaeism contained Zoroastrian, Christian, Judaic, Mithraic and Buddhist elements. …”
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The formation of Armenian identity in the first millenium by van Lint, T

“…Three periods are distinguished: the Nairian-Urartian stretching from about 1200 BCE to the conquest of the Armenian plateau by the Achaemenids; followed by the Zoroastrian phase, in which political, religious, social, and cultural institutions in Armenia were closely related to Iranian ones, lasting until the adoption of Christianity as state religion in Armenia at the beginning of the fourth century. …”

Assistant Professor, Department of Theology and Islamic Sciences, Payam Noor University, Iran by yusof jafarzadeh, moohamd masoudnia

“…But immediately after his death, we are faced with the widespread return of early Zoroastrian religions.In the present article, we will examine this process of religious transformation in the religions of ancient Iran with the method of phenomenology of religion.…”
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Translation Techniques and Exegesis in Zand of Three Gāthic Hymns of Avesta by Seyyed Saeid Reza Montazeri, Majid Tame

“…Zand texts or Middle Persian translations of Avestan texts are an important part of Middle Persian literature. Zoroastrians believe that Zand literature is as important as Avestan texts. …”
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The Place and Role of Friendship In Creating a Desirable Ahurai World (Case Study: Avestan texts and Achaemenid Inscriptions( by zeynab hosseini

“…Zarathustra has provided a hierarchy according to which the Zoroastrian person at each stage is characterized by various manifestations of friendship and eventually achieves the friendship of Ahuramazda. …”
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The Dēnkard VI: ‘Consequentialism’ and ‘Capitalism’ as Well as Paymān (The ancient Iranian ‘golden mean’) by Shirzad Peik Herfeh

“…The Dēnkard VI (Book VI of the Dēnkard) is representative of late antique and early medieval Zoroastrian ethical ideas. This article analyzes Book VI of the Dēnkard based on modern moral philosophy and introduces it as a candidate for early consequentialism and capitalism. …”
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Sassanid Seals Symbolism by F. Mahmoudi, N. Marandi

“…The main part of these illustrations are based on khvarenah and gods of Zoroastrian religion and also partly from other cultures and civilizations. …”
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Siparɣam and its features in Iranian texts (Based on Old Iranian texts) by neda akhavan aghdam, Fariba Sharifiyan

“…This herb is used at Zoroastrian ritual and religious ceremonies and it is obvious from the ancient texts (Rivayat-e Pahlavi, 1988, 67- 68; Mazdapour, 1989, 490, 493, n.13). …”
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Beliefs and Practies about Whammy and Fortune in Shafi and Alawis Living in Bingöl and Tunceli Region / Bingöl ve Tunceli Yöresinde Yaşayan Şafii ve Alevilerde Nazar ve Uğurla İlgi... by Okan Alay

“…Especially the shamanism, Yareshan and Zoroastrian influences that attract attention in Alawis, it is determined that there are some reflections of al-Shamans and other spiritual religions such as Judaism and Christianity together with Islamic religion. …”
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The reflection of “Mirror” Symbol in Myth & Mysticism According to Bundahishn and Mersad al-ebad by Zahra Ameri, Mahin Panahi

“…In Bundahishn, one of the primal Zoroastrian religious texts as well as Pahlavi interpretations of Avesta, the Mirror is considered as one of the five parts of human body. …”
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A New Comparative Note on Zahhak’s Myth (According to Sasanian and Post-Sasanian Texts) by Daryoosh Akbarzadeh

“…The myth is known through the Avestan text; however, in Zoroastrian Pahlavi texts, it is a prominent myth and clearly, it had influenced Post-Sasanian texts, too. …”
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Penser le Cthulhucène et son géotraumatisme : le cas Cyclonopedia de Reza Negarestani by Fabien Richert

“…In Iranian philosopher Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials (2008), concepts by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari intersect with the cosmic deities imagined by H.P. Lovecraft, occult Zoroastrian relics explain John Carpenter’s horrific science fiction imagination, and develop a most extravagant hypothesis: oil, a “tellurian entity” imprisoned in the deep layers and formations of the earth, has been waiting for a long time to be released from the depths of the earth and to spread into the atmosphere. …”
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The rebirth of the epic from the Nietzsche's Philosophy by Reza Samim, Farhad Soleimannejad

“…Moreover, Nietzche's grasp of Zoroastrian worldview is so much blurred and incomplete. …”
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Rethinking Death’s Sacredness: From Heraclitus’s frag. DK B62 to Robert Gardner’s Dead Birds by Segovia Carlos A.

“…It surveys various ways of suppressing, nuancing, or minimising death’s effects and different ways of assuming its non-impasse through a cross-disciplinary lens that combines ethnographic inquiry, philosophical conceptualisation, and a secular, religious studies approach to the sacred. Zoroastrian and pre-Rabbinic Jewish views on the resurrection of the body, Gnostic and Neo-Gnostic takes on the immortality of the soul, and ancient-Greek, Hindu, and medieval Peripatetic claims about the continuity of life beyond death are thus brought into discussion and confronted with the Epicurean dismissal of death’s relevance for us. …”
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An Achaemenid God in Color by Susanne Ebbinghaus, Katherine Eremin, Judith A. Lerner, Alexander Nagel, Angela Chang

“…The new scientific data is compared to the findings of ongoing investigations of polychromies at Persepolis and other Achaemenid Persian sites and evaluated for the information it can and cannot provide on the original appearance of the figure in the winged disk, likely the Zoroastrian god Ahuramazda. The article reviews past attempts at reconstructing the relief’s coloration and the assumptions that guided them, recounts the experience of creating a tangible three-dimensional color reconstruction for an exhibition, and concludes with some general thoughts on the valuation of colorfulness.…”
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