TY  - GEN
AB  - The Bundahišn, meaning primal or foundational creation, is the central Zoroastrian account of creation, cosmology, & one of the most important of the surviving testaments to Zoroastrian literature & pre-Islamic Iranian culture. Touching on geography, cosmogony, anthropology, zoology, astronomy, legend, & myth, the Bundahišn can be considered a concise compendium of Zoroastrian knowledge. The Bundahišn is well known in the field as an essential source for the study of ancient Iranian history, religions, literature, & languages. It is one of the most important texts composed in Zoroastrian Middle Persian, also known as Zoroastrian Book Pahlavi, in the centuries after the fall of the Sasanian Empire to the invading Arab & Islamic forces in the mid seventh century. The Bundahišn provides scholars with a particularly profitable window on intellectual & religious history at a crucial transitional moment.
AU  - Agostini, Domenico,
AU  - Thrope, Samuel,
CN  - Oxford Scholarship Online
CN  - PK6197
ID  - 939224
KW  - Pahlavi language
KW  - Zoroastrianism
LA  - eng
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.001.0001
N1  - Translated from the Pahlavi.
N2  - The Bundahišn, meaning primal or foundational creation, is the central Zoroastrian account of creation, cosmology, & one of the most important of the surviving testaments to Zoroastrian literature & pre-Islamic Iranian culture. Touching on geography, cosmogony, anthropology, zoology, astronomy, legend, & myth, the Bundahišn can be considered a concise compendium of Zoroastrian knowledge. The Bundahišn is well known in the field as an essential source for the study of ancient Iranian history, religions, literature, & languages. It is one of the most important texts composed in Zoroastrian Middle Persian, also known as Zoroastrian Book Pahlavi, in the centuries after the fall of the Sasanian Empire to the invading Arab & Islamic forces in the mid seventh century. The Bundahišn provides scholars with a particularly profitable window on intellectual & religious history at a crucial transitional moment.
SN  - 9780190879075 
T1  - The bundahišn :the Zoroastrian book of creation /
TI  - The bundahišn :the Zoroastrian book of creation /
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.001.0001
ER  -