ParthianLord
Registered Member
Dariush has some good points though,
political islam was a invading force to Iran, all our ancestors saw them as enemies,in the end they adopted the religion but doesnt change that fact that Islam came into Iran as the ideology of the enemy.
though most of iran was still Zoroastrian till Persian nobility like the Samanids adopted islam and started force converting the population.
you could argue that figures like Saman (founder of Samanid dynasty) are the true "Fathers of iranian islam"
en.wikipedia.org
also Iran as a concept is much older then safavids wtf...
"Eran shahr / Iran shahr" "Empire of Iran" was the official name of the sassanid empire.
though the concept of "Iranian peoples" goes back to era of Kurosh (cyrus the great), who wanted to "unite all the iranian peoples under one banner" he succeded to unite them all except the Saka/scythians.
The Saka and Scythians got included into the Iranian Empire by Darius the Great after he conquered remaining central asia and the Scythian realm in modern Romania/bulgaria finally uniting all iranian people under one banner.
political islam was a invading force to Iran, all our ancestors saw them as enemies,in the end they adopted the religion but doesnt change that fact that Islam came into Iran as the ideology of the enemy.
though most of iran was still Zoroastrian till Persian nobility like the Samanids adopted islam and started force converting the population.
you could argue that figures like Saman (founder of Samanid dynasty) are the true "Fathers of iranian islam"
Saman Khuda - Wikipedia
also Iran as a concept is much older then safavids wtf...
"Eran shahr / Iran shahr" "Empire of Iran" was the official name of the sassanid empire.
though the concept of "Iranian peoples" goes back to era of Kurosh (cyrus the great), who wanted to "unite all the iranian peoples under one banner" he succeded to unite them all except the Saka/scythians.
The Saka and Scythians got included into the Iranian Empire by Darius the Great after he conquered remaining central asia and the Scythian realm in modern Romania/bulgaria finally uniting all iranian people under one banner.
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