The Altaic Turks and Moral-Religious Relations with the Sassanids

Subject Areas : Epistemological and methodological researcher of historical research

khodakaram rafiee ¹ , Feizollah Boushasb Gousheh ² , Naser Jadidi ³

1 - Azad University, Najaf Abad branch
2 - ۲ دانشیار گروه تاریخ. واحد نجف آباد. دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی. نجف آباد. ایران. [e-mail]
3 - Department of History, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran

Received: 2024-08-07 Accepted : 2024-09-09 Published : 2024-09-10

Keywords: “Sassanids”, “Altaics”, “Turks”, “Religious Relations”, “Zoroastrian”, “Manichaean”.,

Abstract :

From the time of the Parthians, the names of peoples who moved to the eastern borders of Iran can be seen in the texts, and in the second half of the Sassanid Empire, the Iranians encountered the new Altai peoples in their eastern borders. These migrations were in such a way that they continued until the following centuries, and after that, the Sassanians, in addition to fighting with their compatriots, the Romans also had to fight with these nomadic tribes, and as a result, they had consequences for them. That is, aside from victory and defeat and political consequences, it has had ritual and religious effects. The purpose of this article is to investigate and research the religious-moral influences of the Sassanids on the Altaics and in what religious dimension these influences were. Therefore, the working method is to firstly examine the overview of the Altai peoples and their migration to the borders of the Sassanid Empire and after that, it refers to the religious-moral influences between these two lands and examines the various rituals that came there from the Sassanid Empire. In the end, it was concluded that apart from the first beliefs of the Altaics, Zoroastrian, Manichaean and Christian beliefs also spread among the Altaics from the east of Iran.

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