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Book SynopsisJenny Rose is Associate Professor of Religion at Claremont Graduate University and Visiting Associate Professor of Religion at Stanford University. She is the author of The Image of Zoroaster: The Persian Mage Through European Eyes (2000).
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Zoroastrianism: An Introduction List of Abbreviations Maps I: Zoroastrians Present and Past II: The Ancient Persians: Truth-Tellers and Paradise-Builders III: A Zoroastrian Presence from Seleucia to Sistan: The Parthian Period IV: Eranshahr: The Sasanian Center of the World V: The Zoroastrians of Central Asia VI: Gabr-Mahalle: Zoroastrians in Islamic Iran VII: Parsipanu: Zoroastrians in India VIII: Zoroastrians Present: Revisited IX: Zarathushtra Present and Past Appendix 1: Textual Timeline Appendix 2: The Five Gathas Appendix 3: Outline of the Yasna Appendix 4: A Selective Historical Timeline Glossary of Names and Terms Notes Select Resources Index
