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Conversion by the sword was not the prerogative of the Christian crusaders or the followers of Islam. Zoroastrians also took to battle to ensure the spread of the religion. This little known past, as far as the majority of Zoroastrians are concerned, is an important part of Armenian history. Nuvart Parseghian Mehta, an Armenian Christian married to a Parsi, the late Nariman Framji Mehta, writes of the battle in her autobiography Short Stories from a Long Life: "There was a bit of (a) hue and cry to my marriage from my family, devout Armenian Christians. They remembered the religious wars of......