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Mazdak

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ParentsBamdad
BooksMazdak: This Book Is an Epic Composition of Persian Poems: Translated in English and French: About Four Outstanding Iranian Historical Movements: Mithraism, Zarathusteranism, Manicheism and Mazdakites.
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Mazdak Life story


Mazdak was a Zoroastrian mobad, Iranian reformer, prophet and religious activist who gained influence during the reign of the Sasanian emperor Kavadh I. He claimed to be a prophet of Ahura Mazda and instituted communal possessions and social welfare programs. He has been seen as a proto-socialist.

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