Arash Zeini
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Arash Zeini
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Bahari Research Fellow @ AMES, @ox.ac.uk; FRHistS; Iranian Studies, history, philology, late antique Zoroastrianism; Founder of @biblioIranica.info; AIS inaugural Book Prize for Ancient Iranian Studies 2022. My views.
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The DOI, saved automatically to Zotero, seems to be faulty.
December 3, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Thanks for pointing this out, Adam. No idea what happened there. I might delete and repost.
December 3, 2025 at 10:56 AM
4: within the socio-political climate of the early Islamic era. It suggests that Manuščihr’s grave concerns were less about ritual modifications than safeguarding the welfare of a Zoroastrian community pushed to the margins of an increasingly suspicious and paranoid caliphate.
November 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
3: to admonish and discipline Zādspram. Scholars have often assumed that the dispute between the priestly brothers stemmed from Zādspram's attempts to modify the notoriously complex purification ritual of Baršnūm of Nine Nights. This lecture challenges such interpretations by situating the conflict
November 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
2: around 750 CE. In 881 CE, the Zoroastrian high priest of Pārs and Kirmān, Manuščihr ī J̌uwānǰamān, wrote three letters addressed to the Zoroastrian community of Sīrgān, his younger brother Zādspram, and the wider Zoroastrian community living under Islamic rule. The main purpose of the epistles is
November 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Absolutely shocking!
November 2, 2025 at 12:25 AM