Mazdak, the son of Bammad, was from the people of Fars Pool, who died in 524 or 528 AD. He created an important social movement in the middle of the 5th century AD, as Edward Brown called him the first philosopher of communism. Mazdak's fame pea ...
Mazdak, the son of Bammad, was from the people of Fars Pool, who died in 524 or 528 AD. He created an important social movement in the middle of the 5th century AD, as Edward Brown called him the first philosopher of communism. Mazdak's fame peaked with the Sassanid Qabad dynasty. The country's situation was very chaotic at this time, and Hebtalians were repeatedly attacking Iran from the east and north.
There were intense and bloody religious conflicts between Zoroastrian priests and Jews, different Christian sects with each other, and the Iranian government with Christians, which it considered agents of the Roman Empire. Successive droughts also encouraged hungry and deprived people to rebel.
Mazdak claimed to be a prophet during the reign of Qabad. Based on Mani's teachings, Mazdak had special beliefs about creation and the other world. He believed in the two principles of light and darkness and the final liberation of light and said that man should avoid worldly interests to help free light from the darkness of matter as much as possible. However, unlike Mani, he did not forbid marriage, and having one wife was enough. Knew The Mazdakians were also vegetarians and they believed that they could be saved by doing good deeds and without doing outwardly religious things...
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