The Islamic sects of Shabak, Bajalan, Sarli, and Kakais are also very closely affiliated with Iranians and has a belief in re-incarnation. After the Islamization of the Iranian Plateau, some intellectuals resisted and established their own new religions, which contained some hindu ideas and ...
(2010: 584), that applies a high degree of feature aggregation and tight sampling on comparable data to produce a microtypology that measures similarities as well as differences across the region, and in which that microtypology is subsequently evaluated against a broader, global typological back...