Hamid Asadpour

With the arrival of Muslims in Iran, a new chapter in the social and religious history of the Iranian people began. However, the arrival of Islam in Iran was met with many challenges and resistance in various regions. Among the various regions, Fars was one of the regions that showed resistance and practically became the base for protecting the previous religion; in the meantime, Kazerun was able to maintain the cohesion of its Zoroastrian community until the early fifth century AH due to the establishment of a Zoroastrian local government. Considering the various pressures on Zoroastrian communities by newly arrived rulers and new Muslims, it seems necessary to understand how an independent Zoroastrian community continued in southwestern Fars until the early fifth century AH. This research seeks to examine the grounds for the continuity and development of the Zoroastrian community of Kazerun during the first centuries of Islam. The present research has been conducted using a descriptive-analytical method and relying on library resources. The findings of this study show that despite the excessive pressure of the new rulers on the Zoroastrian community of Kazerun and the imposition of various restrictions, they succeeded in maintaining the coherence of their structure and actions and in having a Zoroastrian ruler, but from the late fourth century and early fifth century, due to the emergence of numerous conflicts with the Murshidiyeh sect of Kazerun, they encountered problems in governing the community, and eventually migrated to mountainous and rural areas to continue their lives in a different style and method.