Messianism in the Zoroastrian Thought in Ancient Iran and its Role in Socio-Political Movements
Messianism in the Zoroastrian Thought in Ancient Iran and its Role in Socio-Political Movements

Summary/Abstract: The issue of messianism and the advent of the savior in apocalypse is one of the beliefs that exist in many societies, including Zoroastrian society. In this regard, people, according to their beliefs, expect the promised truth to emerge and realize the utopia and ideal society and to wipe the wicked and the devil off the people's lives and off the face of the earth. Using library resources and descriptive-analytical method in this paper, we endeavor to examine the issues of politics, prophesy and messianism in Zoroastrian thought and their roles in the socio-political movements of pre-Islamic Iran until the first two centuries AH. The Zoroastrians have never given up their hopes of a bright future and the promised advent of the apocalyptic savior; however, due to the cooperation of religion and politics, the presence of this belief in the political and social movements of ancient Iran is faint, though in the movements of the first two centuries AH, it has a stronger presence.

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