Crossword-Solution: PARSIISM 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

SEYYID KAẒIM--ISLAM--PARSIISM--BUDDHISM On Aḥmad's death the unanimous choice of the members of the school fell on Seyyid (Sayyid) Kaẓim of Resht, who had been already nominated by the Sheykh.

They are derived from the same period in which the underlying idea of the Gnostic systems also originated, namely, the time at which the ideas of the Persian and Babylonian religions came into contact, the remarkable results of which have thus partly found their way into the official documents of Parsiism.

The ordinary Yezdi Mussulman is descended partly from the original Aryan inhabitants of Persia, and partly from their Arabian conquerors: but the enormous difference in character that exists between him and the purely Aryan Parsi is certainly due less to race and more to religion, for the _jadīds_, or converts from Parsiism, often develop all the Mussulman characteristics in a few generations, without the slightest admixture of race.