Doug Metzger
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2,647 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Doug Metzger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Placed stock in descent from the Al-Albite, or the people of the house of the Prophet Muhammad, the titles Sayyid and Sharif came to indicate descent from Muhammad or the Hashemite clan.
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And millions of Iranians today trace their lineage to the region's dominant prophet, just as they did before Islam came to be, maintaining Nasabs or genealogical records.
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of their family's descent from the Prophet's son in law, the first Imam Ali.
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To stick with ancient Iranian history, the author of the Bundahijjan describes himself as a man named Farabag at the end, and a descendant of the prophet Zoroaster.
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This claim of descent occurs in a passage about Mobeds, or Zoroastrian priests, who are descended from Zoroaster himself.
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We will meet some of these legendary figures in more detail in future episodes on Ferdosi's Shaname and its background.
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As Zoroastrianism became an increasingly marginalized religion in the Islamic world, Persians could still revere the folk heroes of Iran and romanticize the heroic past of the region even as they lived in an Islamic present.
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So that takes us through the end of the Bundeshion, a Zoroastrian cosmogonical encyclopedia written at a time when Zoroastrianism was rapidly losing ground in its ancestral homeland of Iran.
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The Bundahision is a meandering, often miscellaneous text that's probably not ideal material for a podcast episode, but I still hope this show has offered you a sense of what Zoroastrians were writing several centuries into the Islamic period.
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What I'd like to do now is to tie things up a little bit by turning to the subject of history and explore what we can take away from this late.
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Zoroastrian text as we move forward.
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The Bundahijan is interested in the subject of time.
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In a beautifully poetic passage it quotes from older Zoroastrian scriptures, the book states that quote
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Time is the measure of all things.
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Time is the most covetous of those who covet.
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Time is the most questioning of those who question and
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Our time was laid down limited.
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In time what is built up falls down.
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No mortal man escapes it, not if he flies upward, not if he digs down a deep well and sits in it, not even if he goes down under the spring of the cold waters.
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This truism for obvious reasons must have had a powerful resonance in the ninth and tenth centuries.
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