Journal of history of Iran)
Mesopotamian Origin of the Devil’s Image in Gnostic and Zurvanite Cults
Mesopotamian Origin of the Devil’s Image in Gnostic and Zurvanite Cults

Toufiq Hosseini

Volume 16, Issue 1 , March 2023, , Pages 17-33

https://doi.org/10.48308/irhj.2023.103281

Abstract
  Belief in evil is one of the long-standing and widespread themes in human religious thoughts. A Belief, which is rooted in the idea of imbalance and corruption in existence. In the ...  Read More
Iranian and  Gnostic Roots of Manichaean Apocalyptic Beliefs
Iranian and Gnostic Roots of Manichaean Apocalyptic Beliefs

Toufiq Hosseini

Volume 14, Issue 1 , September 2021, , Pages 65-80

https://doi.org/10.52547/irhj.14.1.65

Abstract
  Analysis of the roots of Manichaean Beliefs, one of obscure and archaic religion, is the one of most important topics that has always been studied by scholars of religion. In fact, ...  Read More
Gnostic Roots of the Myth of Creation in Manichaeism beliefs
Gnostic Roots of the Myth of Creation in Manichaeism beliefs

Roozbeh Zarrinkoob; Toufiq Hosseini

Volume 13, Issue 1 , May 2020, , Pages 1-27

https://doi.org/10.52547/irhj.13.1.1

Abstract
  The impression and influence of intellectual concepts and beliefs on one another has always been the subject of scholars’ research throughout of history. The evolution of the ...  Read More