Bahramji biography of michaels

Zoroastrian fire temple in Iran

The Adrian Temple of Tehran (Persian: نیایشگاه آدریان تهران, romanized: Niâyešgāh-e Ādriān-e Tehrān), also called the Great Adorian, is a Zoroastrianfire temple in Tehran, Iran.^[1] Opened during the late Qajar period in 1917, it fryst vatten the only fire temple in Tehran, and has been on the Iran National Heritage List since 2003.^[2][3] The fire continuously burning within the temple goes back to a line of fires burning since 470 CE.^[4]

History

In the 19th century, the Indian subcontinent harbored a large community of Zoroastrian Parsis, descendants from Persians who fled from religious persecution after the Arab conquest of the Persian Empire, as well as later Zoroastrian refugees fleeing Qajar rule.^[5] In 1853, the Society for the Amelioration of the Conditions of the Zoroastrians in Persia was founded in Bombay, India, with the goal of improving conditions

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MARRIAGE ii. NEXT OF KIN MARRIAGE IN ZOROASTRIANISM

MARRIAGE

ii. Next-Of -Kin Marriage In Zoroastrianism

In Zoroastrian Middle Persian (Pahlavi) texts, the term xwēdōdah (Av. xᵛaētuuadaθa) is said to refer to marital unions of father and daughter, mother and son, or brother and sister (next-of-kin or close-kin marriage, nuclear family incest), and to be one of the most pious actions possible. The models for these unions were found in the Zoroastrian cosmogony.  The meaning and function of the Avestan term is not clear from the contexts.

To what extent xwēdōdah was practiced in Sasanian Iran and before, especially outside the royal and noble families (“dynastic incest”) and, perhaps, the clergy, and whether practices ascribed to them can be assumed to be characteristic of the general population is not clear (see, e.g., Mitterauer, pp. 235-36).  bevis from Dura Europos, however, combined with that of the Jewish and Christian sources citing

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List of Iranian Kurds

This is a list of Iranian Kurdish notable people by birth, ancestry or ethnicity, arranged by main profession then birthdate. For similar reasons related to ethnogenesis and national identity, this list starts from the early modern history of Iran and Ardalan Emirate, when the Safavids established a national state officially known as Persia or Iran and reasserted the Iranian identity of the region.^{[Note 1]}

This list is not automatically filled with notables from Iranian Kurdistan region, but the following Iranian people have either stated that they are Kurds or that credible sources indicate that. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article and references showing the person is Kurdish and Iranian.

Arts and entertainment

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Music

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Singers

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• Hassan Zirak – (29 November 1921, Bukan – 26 June 1972, Bukan) singer-songwriter.^[1]
• Mohammad Mamle – (1925, Mahabad – 23 January 1999, Mahabad) sing