The encounter of Zoroastrianism with Islam

Philosophy East and West

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 159-172

  Stepaniants, Marietta ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 61949227980     PISSN: 00318221     EISSN: 15291898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pew.2002.0030     Document Type: Review

References (32)

1. - See Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, ed. E. Crais, 10 vols. (London and New York: Routledge, 1998), 9:872
2. - The Avesta, the sacred book of Zoroastrianism, today exists in two redactions. The first is the Vendidad-sade (literally, a pure Vendidad without translation or commentary) in what is called the "Avestian" language, together with the Visparad and the Yasna. The second, the Zend-Avesta (meaning "text and its interpretation"), consists of the same three parts arranged in a different order and accompanied by the translations and commentaries in Pahlavi that, in Sassanid times, were attached to the Avesta
3. - The Zend-Avesta, part 1, The Vendidad, trans. J. Darmesteter, vol. 4 of Sacred Books of the East, ed. Max Müller (Delhi, Varanasi, and Patna: Motilal Banarsidass, 1988), pp. xi-xii
4. - See R. C. Zaehner, The Teachings of the Magi (London: Sheldon Press, 1956)
5. - M. Boyce, History of Zoroastrism, 3 vols., with Grantz Grenet (vol. 3) (Leiden: Brill, 1975 [vol. 1], 1982 [vol. 2], 1991 [vol. 3])
6. - L. Erickson, "The Problem of Zoroastrian Influence on Judaism and Christianity" (paper presented at the World Congress on Mullā Sadrā, Tehran, 25-27 May 1999), p. 16
7. - See J. R. Hinnells, Zoroastrians in Britain (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966), p. 2
8. - J. R. Hinnells, "Iranian Influence on the New Testament," Acta Iranica 2 (1974): 271-284
9. - See I.J.S. Taraporewala, The Religion of Zarathushtra (Tehran: Sazman-e-Faravahar, 1980), p. 25
10. - Erickson, "The Problem of Zoroastrian Influence," p. 16
11. - These are Asha (representing Truth, Righteousness, and Divine Law and Order), Volumanah (the Good Mind), Khashthra (Kingdom or Sovereignty or Power), Armaiti (Patience, Humility, Devotion, and Love), Hauravatat (Perfection, Health, and Well-being), and Amerelat (Deathlessness or Immortality)
12. - Poure Davoud, Introduction to the Holy Gathas, trans. D. J. Irani (Bombay: Iranian Zoroastrian Anjuman and the Iran League, 1927), p. 7
13. - Taraporewala, The Religion of Zarathushtra, p. 72
14. - Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History, 2 vols., abridgment of vols. 1 -6 by D. C. Sommervell (New York: Laurel, 1965), 2 :28
15. - See E. G. Browne, Literary History of Persia, 4 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1924), 1 : 200 ff
16. - All quotations from the Koran are from The Meaning of the Glorius Qur'an. 2 vols. Translation and commentary by Abdullah Yusuf Ali (Cairo-Beirut: Dar al-Kitab al-Masri, date of publication unknown)
17. - Ibn Al'Arabī, The Bezels of Wisdom, trans. with introd. R.W.J. Austin (New York: Paulist Press, 1980)
18. - Taraporewala, The Religion of Zarathushtra, p. 73
19. - Ibid., p. 72
20. - Toynbee, A Study of History, 1 : 445
21. -Taraporewala, The Shah-nameh, p. 161
22. - See Taraporewala, The Religion of Zarathushtra, p. 171
23. - Cambridge History of Islam, vol. 2B, p. 476
24. - Zoroastrian texts (Moscow: Vostochnaya literatura, 1997), pp. 103
25. - Taraporewala, The Religion of Zarathushtra, pp. 19-20
26. - It is worth mentioning that some of the most prominent among the early Sufis were descendants of Zoroastrians. Abu Yazīd al-Bistāmī (d. 874) was the son of a Zoroastrian, and Al-Hallādj (d. 922) was the grandson of a Zoroastrian priest
27. - L. Erickson, "The Problem of Zoroastrian Influence," p. 6
28. - Henry Corbin, Histoire de la philosophie islamique (Paris: Gallimard, 1986), p. 288
29. - By the way, in Iran nobody calls Alexander "the Great." Zoroastrian tradition calls him "guzastag" (accursed) - an epithet that he alone shares with Ahriman, or Satan
30. - See James Darmesteter's Introduction to The Zend-Avesta, part 1, The Vendidad, p. xxxvii
31. - Taraporewala, The Religion of Zarathushtra, p. 77
32. - Ibid., p. 78