Yahya Solati Cheshmemahi; Hossein Kalbasi Ashtari
Volume 10, Issue 38 , July 2014, , Pages 75-86
Abstract
Dahar’ is the Arabic word for time and means age or eon. The term ‘Dahari’ was coined by Arabs, near the end of the Sassanid era, to refer to the followers of Zorvanism. This religious belief is a deviant belief system of Zoroastrianism which, through trimming mythological and metaphysical ...
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Dahar’ is the Arabic word for time and means age or eon. The term ‘Dahari’ was coined by Arabs, near the end of the Sassanid era, to refer to the followers of Zorvanism. This religious belief is a deviant belief system of Zoroastrianism which, through trimming mythological and metaphysical elements, believed in an absolute beginning named Zorvan. In this monotheistic worldview, Zorvan is the representation of absolute time and the creator of all creatures and phenomena. Therefore, this belief, by rejecting the Day of Resurrection and depriving humans of their will, is considered as a predestinarian belief and will be comparable to the belief system of Materialism in terms of its tendency toward naturalism and rejection of supernatural phenomena.
