The bundahišn : the Zoroastrian book of creation / Domenico Agostini and Samuel Thrope ; with a foreword by Shaul Shaked and an afterword by Guy G. Stroumsa.
2020
PK6197 .B813 2020
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Title
The bundahišn : the Zoroastrian book of creation / Domenico Agostini and Samuel Thrope ; with a foreword by Shaul Shaked and an afterword by Guy G. Stroumsa.
Uniform Title
Bundahishn. English.
ISBN
9780190879075 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
PK6197 .B813 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification
891.53
Summary
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.
Note
Translated from the Pahlavi.
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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version: 9780190879044
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