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Rudkhan Castle is a medieval castle in Iran with an unusual history. Located 25 km southwest of Foman city north of Iran in Gilan province, it was built during the Seljuq era (12th century) by followers of the Ismā'īlī sect on the site of an earlier Sassanid fortress. The...

Which One? Sunni or Shia? Deobandi or Sufi? Ismaili or Wahhabi?

Assume by someway it is reformed Jewish sect which seeks converts but within the greater Jewish fold not as a separate faith. Now how would history change from there on for both Judaism, Christianity, Islam, India, Persia and the rest of the Middle East and Europe. What would be some major...

What if Islam started out as a Christian Nestorian sect? It seems logial since Islam draws a significant amount of its theological basis from the Judeo-Christian tradion. Accepting both the old and new testaments as cannonical and the Judeo-Christian god firmly established as the one single God...

Far as I read about Nazi movement in Germany I do realize that was rather religious movement , sect then poitical movement. As I read they sent expedition to Tibet in 1938 to look for Aryans because head of Nazi movement believed that they were ancestors of German people. Those guys from...