what do you call a follower of zoroastrianism
Zoroastrianism With possible roots dating back to the second millennium BCE, Zoroastrianism enters recorded history in the 5th-century BCE.[3] Along with a Mithraic Median prototype and a Zurvanist Sassanid successor, it served as the state religion of the pre-Islamic Iranian empires for more than a millennium, from around 600 BCE to 650 CE. Zoroastrianism was suppressed from the 7th century onwards following the Muslim conquest of Persia of 633–654.[6] Recent estimates place the current number of Zoroastrians at around 190,000, with most living in India and in Iran; their number is declining.[7][8][9][circular reference][3][n 2] In 2015, there were reports of up to 100,000 converts in Iraqi Kurdistan.[10] Besides the Zoroastrian diaspora, the older Mithraic faith Yazdânism is still practised amongst Kurds.[n 3]