An Introduction to Ancient Iranian Religion: Readings from the Avesta and the Achaemenid Inscriptions
ISBN: 9780816663569
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Iran -- Religion -- Addresses essays lectures; Zoroastrianism -- Addresses essays lectures;

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 influenced the


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