Author : Gherardo Gnoli
Release : 2003
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Religious Themes and Texts of Pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia by : Gherardo Gnoli
Download or read book Religious Themes and Texts of Pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia written by Gherardo Gnoli. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume contains forty-one papers dedicated to the distinguished Iranianist by colleagues, friends and former students, and a complete bibliography of the dedicatee. The papers deal with a variety of themes relating to Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Christianity, Buddhism and the multifarious religious history of pre-Islamic Iran approached mainly, but not exclusively, from a historical and philological point of view. The volume also contains a number of previously unpublished or untranslated religious texts as well as re-editions and new translations. The papers cover all Old and Middle Iranian languages, New Persian and other New Iranian languages.