Instead of Ahura Mazdah and Ahriman...

Instead of Ahura Mazdah and Ahriman, they found Allah and Iblis; they also got their angels and demons, their stories about the creation of man and his resurrection, about heaven and hell and about sundry things similar to those they found in their own religion. Besides all this, they dis­covered that the ethics of Islam was not very different from theirs.

Under the Muslim rule they began to enjoy a remarkable degree of toleration; their religious practices were respected and their fire-temples safeguarded.[^3] Besides the causes enumerated above for the…