Islam in Iran
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Islam in Iran
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Islam began entering Iran a few years after it was founded by Muhammad in the 7th century. The Arab conquest of Iran, which culminated in the fall of the Sasanian Empire to the nascent Rashidun Caliphate, brought about a monumental change in Iranian society by purging Zoroastrianism, which had been the Iranian nation's official and majority religion since the time of the Achaemenid Empire. Since the Rashidun invasion, Islam has consistently held the status of Iran's official religion except for
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Iran
date created:
2004-12-14T05:00:15Z
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2024-08-31T20:59:43Z
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