Mahabad (

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: مهاباد Mahābād) is believed to be a pre-

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or demigod. He is also called ''Azar Hooshang'', the Fire of Wisdom. In some traditions, he is believed to be the first human. Section 3 of the ''

Dabestan-e Mazaheb The ''Dabestān-e Mazāheb'' ( fa, دبستان مذاهب) "school of religions" is a Persian language work that examines and compares Abrahamic religions, Dharmic religions and sects of the mid-17th century Southern Eurasia. The work, whose a ...

'', a 17th-century text, is dedicated to the Yazdanians (also called the ''Sahi Kesh'' or ''Sipasi''), who held Mahabad to be the most exalted of prophets and the progenitor of the entire human race. The Dabestan briefly outlines the Yazdanians' beliefs and describes Mahabad's code of laws, the Paiman-i Farhang (Excellent Covenant). According to the Dasatir-i-Asmani, a text written in the 16th or 17th century by the

mystic

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, he lived in an earlier cycle of time (before Gayomard) and was the first of sixteen successive prophets. The thirteenth of these prophets was

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and the last was Sasan V, the alleged author of the ''Dasatir.''

References

External links

The Dabestan-e Madaheb, or 'School of religious doctrines' - Section III
* ttp://www.avesta.org/dhalla/history6.htm#chap50 M.N. Dhalla: History of Zoroastrianism (1938), part 6, Chapter L, MYSTICS AND MYSTICISMbr>Encyclopedia Iranica: DASĀTĪR
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