Mary Boyce

Zoroastrians

Their Religious Beliefs and Practices

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Zoroastrianism is of enormous importance in the history of religions. It became the state religion of the three great Iranian empires and influenced other world faiths: northern Buddhism and Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

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Produktdetails

• The Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780415239035
• ISBN-10: 0415239036
• Artikelnr.: 21226703

Autorenporträt

Mary Boyce is Professor Emerita of Iranian Studies at the University of London and is the author of a number of works on Zoroastrianism and Manicheanism.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword to this edition, Preface, Glossary, Signs and abbreviations 1 The
background 2 Zoroaster and his teaching 3 The establishing of Mazda worship
4 The unrecorded centuries 5 Under the Achaemenians 6 Under the Seleucids
and Arsacids 7 Under the early Sasanians 8 During the mid Sasanian period 9
Under the later Sasanians 10 Under the Caliphs 11 Under II-Khans, Rajahs
and Sultans Contents 12 Under the Safavids and Mughals 13 Under the Qajars
and British 14 In the twentieth century