NMC101H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter Khuramiyya : Shia Islam, Mazdak, Zoroastrianism
3 Jun 2016
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The khurammiyya were some of the rural communities that had a distinguished set of belief disliked by muslims. They were friendly and claimed to be monotheist yet dualists. Their dualism involved associating god with both good and evil. This label was given to such group for the first time in the 8th century in khurasan when during the. Hashmite movement, one of their missionaries, khidash, adopted din al khuramiyya and the leaders of the hashmite revolution disowned him. Khuramiyya suggest that their belief system resembled mazdakism, which was an unorthodox for of zoroastrianism. Two main beliefs that led scholars to think so were the laws on women and property. Not only so, but the interesting fact is that there were also two main ideologies that opposed to mazdakism, and those were of the periodic incarnation of the divine in human beings and reincarnation of the human spirit .
