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    A mobed, mowbed, or mobad (Middle Persian: 𐭬𐭢𐭥𐭯𐭲) is a Zoroastrian cleric of a particular rank. Unlike a herbad (ervad), a mobed is qualified to...
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    𐭬𐭦𐭣𐭪, also Mazdak the Younger; died c. 524 or 528) was a Zoroastrian mobad (priest), Iranian reformer, prophet and religious reformer who gained influence...
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    religion was founded in the early Sasanian Empire by Zardusht, a Zoroastrian mobad who was a contemporary of Mani (d. 274). However, it is named after its...
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    High rituals such as the Yasna are considered to be the purview of the Mobads with a corpus of individual and communal rituals and prayers included in...
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    priests have the title of mobad, and are able to conduct the congregational worship and such occasional functions as marriages. A mobad must be the son, grandson...
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  • Minister Rabbi Imam Pastor Brahmin Vedic priest Archpriest Hieromonk Vicar Mobad Shaman Witch doctor Goði Druid Oracle Priesthood (Community of Christ) Priesthood...
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  • Oshidri (Persian: [جهانگیر اوشیدری) (1921- October 22, 2004) was a high-level Mobad (priest or cleric) and a researcher of the Zoroastrians in Iran. He had...
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  • Zoroastrian Magi (plural: Moghan) Mobad or Mowbed; High-ranking Priest (moghpati, moghbadh; plural: Mobadan) Mobadan Mobad or Mowbedan Mowbed; Chief of the...
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    are called a Mobad and they officiate the Yasna, pouring libations into the sacred fire to the accompaniment of ritual chants. The Mobad also prepare...
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    high priest who has authority in religious matters and ranks higher than a mobad or herbad. In this specific sense, the term is used mostly among the Parsis...
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    Islamic faith. In particular this includes his close relationship with the mobad Sunpadh and his repeated praise of Zoroastrianism. Following his successful...
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  • is collected from the houses of a dastur (high priest/senior priest,) a mobad, and a layman. A natural fire is also kindled by striking two flint stones...
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    property to other Mobads. He then lists his titles in the Sasanian court: "mobad and herbad" in the time of Shapour I, "Kartir, the mobad of Hormozd" in...
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    Zoroastrian priesthood has survived in India and Iran. They are termed Herbad, Mobad (Magupat, i.e. chief of the Maga), and Dastur depending on the rank. The...
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    and brother of Bahram I) Kartir was awarded the new Zoroastrian title of mobad—a clerical title that was to be considered higher than that of the eastern-Iranian...
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    death sentence to a heavy fine, but this attempt failed. Dabistan-i Mazahib Mobad states Jahangir tortured Arjan in the hopes of extracting the money and...
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    consultations with the Jathedars of the other four takhts and the SGPC. Mobad and Magi are Clergy of Zoroastrianism. Kartir was one of the powerful and...
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    about her pregnancy, the mobads (priests) were against it. Nevertheless, Ardashir still demanded her execution, which led the mobads to conceal her and her...
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    on the ladder. Above them were the mobads, denoting priests who had completed their training. In India, the mobads have a dastur as their superior. This...
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  • Zoroastrianism honorifics and titles Role Description Mobad, Mobedyar Herbad Dastur...
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    that is kept in the homes of Zoroastrians. Often, money is offered to the mobad (priest) as payment, along with sandalwood. Sandalwood is called sukhad...
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    Seleucia-Ctesiphon gave up choosing bishops since it would result in death. The local mobads – Zoroastrian clerics – with the help of satraps organized slaughters of...
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  • the name of high ideals, so it is considered the most revered and noble; Mobads (āθravan) – represented by white, symbolizing spirituality, moral purity...
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    Ctesiphon. According to classical sources, not long after Sukhra's execution, a mobad (priest) named Mazdak caught Kavad's attention. Mazdak was the chief representative...
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  • as the miller (آسیابان; āsiābān) Mahmoud Behrouzian as the priest (موبد; mobad) Amin Tarokh as the general (سردار اسپهبد; sardār spāhbed) Karim Akbari...
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    acts of violence took place, Zoroastrian scriptures were burnt and many mobads executed. Once conquered politically, the Persians began to reassert themselves...
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    Zoroastrians Persian Shiraz, Tehran and Yazd 2/8 25% Not specified if Herbad or Mobad Iraqi Jews Judeo-Iraqi Arabic (Central Semitic) Iraq 7/32 21.9% 12.5% T1a1a1a1a1a1-P77...
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    income of Zoroastrian clergy. Occasionally kustis, were woven by priests (mobads) themselves, though this is now exceedingly uncommon. Since the 1920s, non-priestly...
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    the stock and the offspring of the Kays." XXXV A. (33) "The family of the Mobads." XXXVI. (34) "On the years of the heroes in the time of 12,000 years."...
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  • Astrampsychi Gobryas Patizeithes Tansar, influential Persian high priest (mobad) considered one of the pivotal figures in the development of the political...
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