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The Spirit of Wisdom

[Mino-ye Xrad]
Essays in Memory of Ahmad Tafazzoli

Edited by Touraj Daryaee and Mahmoud Omidsalar

Ahmad Tafazzoli was a leading scholar of Iranian languages, whose untimely death in 1996 was a great loss for the scholarly community. This volume brings together 19 papers to honor his memory.They include essays on Persian textual criticism and manuscript studies, Persian epic literature, history of ancient Persia, Zoroastrianism, Iranian dialectology, Middle Persian, Pazand, and Sogdian texts.

CONTENTS

On the Mazdeans and the Mu‘tazilah
Siamak Adhami, California State University, Fullerton

Persian Manuscript Facsimiles
Iraj Afshar, Tehran University (Emeritus)

The Demon of Wrath and the Ayadgar õ Zariran
Dariyoosh Akbarzadeh, Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization

Payman
Jaleh Amuzegar, Tehran University

Personal names ending in ]  in the Shahnama
Carlo G. Cereti, University of Rome

Incorporation of Medieval Science into Zoroastrian Scripture and Exegesis: Some Evidence from Dinkard Book 4
J.K. Choksy, Indiana University

A Historical Episode in the Zoroastrian Apocalyptic Tradition: The Romans, the Abbasids, and the Khorramdins
T. Daryaee, California State University, Fullerton

Darius the Liar and Shapur the Heritor
Richard N. Frye, Harvard University (Emeritus)

Arda Wiraz Namag: Some Critical Remarks
Bijan Gheiby, University of Gottingen

On the Title of The Sasanid General Bahram
Djalal Khalegi-Motlagh, Hamburg University

On the Source of the Story of Bõzhan and Manõzha
Abolfazl Khatibi, Iranian Academy of Language and Literature

Wall as A System of Frontier Defense during the Sasanid Period
Hamid Mahamedi, University of California, Berkeley

Kushnama
Jalal Matini, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad (Emeritus)

Shahnama Editions and Textual Scholarship
Mahmoud Omidsalar, California State University, Los Angeles

Two Zoroastrian Nirangs and the invocation to the stars and the planets
A. Panaino, University of Bologna

The Magi in the Derveni Papyrus
James R. Russell, Harvard University

Did Goshtasp Marry His Sister?
A. Sh. Shahbazi, Eastern Oregon University

Iranian Notes
Fereydun Vahman, University of Copenhagen and Garnik Asatrian,
Oriental Institute of Armenia

Sogdian Ówzyy
Zohreh Zarshenas, Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies

March, 2003
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