How did Persians become Muslims?

Question

I heard that persains (the main ethnic group in Iran) are not arabs and in fact hate arabs....how do they have the same religion?

persains aren't decendants of abram are they?

Answer 1

Hey man. The islamics from the surroudning nations converted many of the zoroastrians (persians' native religion) and then viciously killed a lot of native persians and forced them under islam..

its a sad story.. happened all across the middle east, north africa, sub-sahara africa, and europe...

Answer 2

Prior to Islam, they were mostly Zoroastarians, a dualist religion, basically just add the devil as an equal to God. They were also a lot of Jews and Christians. Of the three the Muslims really had it in for the Zoroastarians, as the other two shared "the book" with them. So at sword's point, it isn't surprising that most were willing to drop the old names and adopt the new terms, it isn't that far of a step from dualism to monotheism.

You're confusing the myths of Islam (the alleged abraham connection) with the reality of it being a conversion religion, like christianity (or roman judaism for that matter.)

Answer 3

Muslim is not an ethnic group, it is simply a religion.

Persian and Arab are two different ethnic groups.

The Prophet Mohammad introduced Islam into the Arabian penninsula in ~610 A.D. (Six hundred and ten years after the birth of Christ). And Islam spread quickly throughout the middle east, northern Africa, and southern Spain (Andalusia) through violence, imperialism, fanatical armies, and the sword. 'The Koran or the Sword' was the cry of the fanatic muslim.

Persian (current day Iran) was forced to become Muslim or die.

Answer 4

In the early years of Islam, the subjugated people were traditionally given three choices: (1) convert to Islam, (2) if you are a Christian or a Jew you could pay a tax to be left alone, or (3) die. (Daniel Clement Dennett, Conversion and the Poll Tax in Early Islam, Harvard University Press, 1950, pages 4 and 16)

Answer 5

As usual, the truth is more complex. Half of the population of Persia *was* massacred at the beginning of the thirteenth century. But *that* was the work of Genghis Khan.

Islam became established under the Safavid dynasty only in 1501. That's almost 300 years later!

Answer 6

Like many other religions,either by conquest,force into it by a stronger ethnic group,look at south america how the natives were force to convert to the catholic church by the conquering spaniards to the point that almost all of south america now is catholic.

Answer 7

The same way most people became Muslims, at the point of a sword.

Answer 8

Muhammed took over