Routledge, 2015. — 352 p. — (Iranian Studies) Addressing the question of the origins of the Zoroastrian religion, this book argues that the intransigent opposition to the cult of the daēvas, the ancient Indo-Iranian gods, is the root of the development of the two central doctrines of Zoroastrianism: cosmic dualism and eschatology (fate of the soul after death and its passage to...
Alain Mole, 2015. — 300 p. Asha Raham (ed.) Shakud humanih visar: The Book of Mardanfarrokh, Dispelling Doubts (in English and Pahlavi) Škand gumānīg wizār (Doubt-dispelling exposition), a Middle Persian Zoroastrian text written by Mardānfarrox son of Ohrmazddād in the ninth century. Its author mentions the Dēnkard compiled by Ādurfarrbay ī Farroxzādān as one of its sources,...
2015. Awesta – zoroastrizm dininiň keramatly kitaby. Beýleki keramatly kitaplar ýaly (Injil, Kuran) Awesta hem dürli wagtlarda Eýranda, Orta Aziýada bar bolan dürli meseleleri öz içine alýar. Onuň gadymy bölümleri Zaratuştra tarapyndan ýazylypdyr. Awestada adamzadyň tebigat, zatlaryň gurluşy we döreýşi hakdaky ilkinji filosofik oýlanmalary bar. Awestanyň iň gadymy böleklerinde...
Vol. II: Under the Achaemenians. — Leyden / Köln: Brill, 1982. — 306 p. The Background The pre-Zoroastrian Religion of the Medes and Persians The Spread of Zoroastrianism in Western Iran Cyrus the Great (550 - 530 B.C.) Cambyses (530 - 522 B.C.) Bardiya and 'Gaumāta the Magus' (522 B.C.) Darius the Great (522 - 486 B.C.) Finds of religious interest at Persepolis Contacts and...
Vol. I: Early Period. — Leyden / Köln: Brill, 1975. — 347 p. The pagan Background Zoroaster and his teachers The prehistoric period of the faith Select bibliography
Vol. III: Zoroastrianism under the Macedonian and Roman Rule. — Leyden / New York / Kopenhagen / Köln: Brill, 1991 — 596 p. Maps and a temple plan Part One: Introductory Part Two: In Lands of Ancient Iranian Habitation Part Three: In Non-Iranian Lands of the Former Achaemenian Empire Excursus: Thus spake not Zarathustra: Zoroastrian pseudepigrapha of the Greco-Roman world...
University Of Chicago Press, 1990. — 176 p. — (Textual Sources for the Study of Religion) This book is a real gem as is the whole series. Series editor John Hinnels, himself an expert on Zoroastrianism he wrote Zorastrians in Britain, has done a good job of getting many experts to put together the most important sources on the world religions. In this one Mary Boyce, the...
Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979. — 252 p. — (Library of religious beliefs and practices). — ISBN: 0-7100-0121-5. This book traces the continuous history of the faith from the time it was preached by Zoroaster down to the present day - a span of about 3,500 years. First taught among nomads on the Asian steppes, Zoroastrianism became the state religion of the three great Iranian...
Brill, 1998. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World). — (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae). This is the first full treatment of the Greek and Latin references to Zoroastrianism since the pioneering works of Benveniste, Bidez & Cumont, and Clemen. It focuses on the possibilities offered by the classical reports on Zoroastrianism to reconstruct the history of that faith. The...
Zoroaster, Politician or Witch-doctor? (Ratanbai Katrak Lecture, 1949). Oxford University Press, 1951, 51 p. Under this intriguing title, Prof. Henning gives us, in a most enjoyable form, his three Ratanbai Katrak lectures of 1949. His portraits of the prophet, as seen alternately through Herzfeld's or Nyberg's spectacles, are full of wit and humour. He may, however, have shot...
Kasson MN, 2013. – 365 p. Corrected version of the classic edition of the Khorde Avesta. The text of the Avestan prayers is given in simplified transliteration with an English translation provided with commentaries. The book itself includes a complete corpus of daily prayers, blessings and rituals. Preface to the English Edition of the Khordeh Avesta-Bā-Māyeni A note on the...
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983. — 195 p. — (Minnesota publications in the humanities, v. 2). — ISBN: 9780816611140. When Persia fell to Islam in the mid-seventh century, the ancient Iranian religion of Zoroastrianism all but disappeared (although it is still practiced by small groups in India and Iran). As one of the dominant religions of antiquity, it...
Oxford University Press, 1938. - 510 p. This book is the revised and much enlarged edition of my Zoroastrian Theology, which has been out of print for the past fifteen years. The publication of my Zoroastrian Civilization, and Our Perfecting World, Zarathushtra's Way of Life, and professional duties have delayed the completion of the work. I have inserted new material in...
Deutsch von Hans Heinrich Schaeder. - Leipzig (Hinrichs) 1938. - ix, 506 p. "The picture of Zarathustra and Zoroastrianism, which I give here, deviates very substantially from the conventional one. It is gained exclusively by a penetrating linguistic and factual investigation of the Avestic texts themselves. I have consulted the views of other scholars only secondarily, and my...
Twilit Grotto, 2011. – 234 p. This edition of the Khorde Avesta uses scientific transcription of Avestan letters to record the Avestan text and is not a direct copy of the E. Kanga edition. Consists of a preface, a table of the Avestan alphabet with rules of pronunciation, a complete corpus of daily Avestan prayers, notes, a list of references and tables of Pazandan conceptions...
Antologie de Zādspram: Édition critique du texte pehlevi traduit et commenté par Ph. Gignoux et A. Tafazzoli. Association pour l'avancement des études iraniennes. Paris, 1993 (Studia Iranica. Cahier 13) - 441 p. ISSN: 0993-8699. Avant-propos Table des matières Bibliographie Trancription et Traduction Apparat critique Glossaire
R. N. Frye (ed.) Harvard Iranian Series 5 . London / Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press, 1987 ISBN: 0-674-96850-6 The Armenian Ethnogenesis Armenia from the Median Conquest to the Rise of the Artaxiads Artaxiad Armenia Armenia under the Parthians and Sasanians Aramazd Vahagn Anahit and Nane Mihr Tir Spandaramet-sandaramet Tork' Hawrot and Mawrot Captive Powers Evil...
E.Yarshater (ed.) — Boulder, Colorado, Westview Press. (Persian Heritage Series. 34) — 384 p. Dēnkard VI: Text and Translation Commentary Glossary and index of Pahlavi words Index of words in other languages Index of Pahlavi passages quoted Listing of titles in Bibliotheca Persica
New Haven Conn.: Yale University Press, 2011. — ix, 270 p. — ISBN: 9780300170351. The book provides English translations of Zoroastrian texts that have been selected to provide an overview of Zoroastrian beliefs and practices. Zoroastrian literature (Background; The Avesta and other Zoroastrian literature Creation and the Divine World (Cosmic contrasts and the two spirits;...
Brill Academic Publishing, 2004. — 744 p. Rituals, it is agreed, play a prominent role in Zoroastrianism, one of the oldest continuous traditions of mankind. In this book, scholars from a broad range of disciplines make the first ever collective effort to address this issue. From a historical and geographical perspective, texts and contexts studied in these pages range from...
München: C.H.Beck Wissen, 2011. — 97 s. Der Name Zarathustra ist nicht zuletzt durch Nietzsches Werk vielen ein Begriff, aber über den historischen Zarathustra, der vor über 2500 Jahren lebte, und seine bis heute verbreitete Religion, den Zoroastrismus, ist nur wenig bekannt. Michael Stausberg bietet einen kompakten und allgemeinverständlichen Überblick über die Geschichte...
Parsee Vegetarian & Temperance Society, Zoroastrian Rahih Society, 1968. - 492 p. A collection of interpretations of Zoroastrian texts, rituals, prayers and creeds from the point of view of occultism and esotericism. Name of Yashts and their Seriatim Numbers Abbreviations used in this book Errata Page Special Features of this Book Zoroastrian Philosophy Ahu, the Un-nameable,...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2009. — 252 p. The publishing house of Brill has once again done a yeoman service to the Zarathushtrain community, in publishing a recent work of Dr. Alan V. Williams titled : "The Zoroastrian Myth of Migration from Iran and Settlement in the Indian Diaspora". It is of course the text, translation and analysis of a sixteenth century Persian manuscript...
Publication details not specified, 1360/1981 — 33 p. Seven texts on the tenets of Zoroastrian Religion. In Persian. در این کتاب هفت نوشتار درباره پایههای دین زرتشتی به این ترتیب آورده شده است آیا ما زرتشتی هستیم برای باقی ماندن چه طرح و تدبیری باید اندیشید مقام دانش و آموزگار و دانشآموز در تعالیم اشوزرتشت توحید اخلاق حسنه و ساخت اجتماعی سالم حق و باطل تضاد یا دوگانگی در نهاد...
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