john89@lemmy.ca to History@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoIf Judaism is the oldest Abrahamic religion, why does it have so few followers compared to Christianity and Islam and why by such a large margin?message-squaremessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up168arrow-down17
arrow-up161arrow-down1message-squareIf Judaism is the oldest Abrahamic religion, why does it have so few followers compared to Christianity and Islam and why by such a large margin?john89@lemmy.ca to History@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square37fedilink
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month ago Christians and Jews were free to convert but pagans were absolutly forced to convert. That also happened, but I’m pretty sure most of the time dhimmi rulings were adopted. That’s why, say, Zoroastrians got to stay Zoroastrian.
minus-squaresun_is_ra@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month ago Zoroastrian Are we discussing Sunni empires or Shia empires?
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoMostly Sunni, why do you ask? Iran was Sunni until the 16th century no?
minus-squaresun_is_ra@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoMy knowladge of Iran history is not very good. I was under false impression they were always Shia. TIL
That also happened, but I’m pretty sure most of the time dhimmi rulings were adopted. That’s why, say, Zoroastrians got to stay Zoroastrian.
Are we discussing Sunni empires or Shia empires?
Mostly Sunni, why do you ask? Iran was Sunni until the 16th century no?
My knowladge of Iran history is not very good. I was under false impression they were always Shia. TIL