The Prophetization of Zarathustra : From Arian Priest to Semitic Prophet as Perceived by the Isma'ili Persian School in the 10th Century

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  • ザラスシュトラの預言者化 : 一〇世紀アラビア語文献に見るアーリア人神官からセム的預言者への変貌
  • ザラスシュトラ ノ ヨゲンシャカ 10セイキ アラビアゴ ブンケン ニ ミル アーリアジン シンカン カラ セムテキ ヨゲンシャ エ ノ ヘンボウ

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This paper begins its work as an attempt to apply Arabic literature for finding new ways in Zoroastrian studies. After a brief survey of former studies on the personality of Zarathustra, it will be pointed that the Isma'ili Persian school's newly published Arabic literature's encompassing corpus still does not attain completion in the field of Zoroastrian studies. As a tentative conclusion, this paper insists that Pahlavi literature does represent an Arian Priest of Zarathustra up to the ninth century, but after that, there might be other types of the personality of Zarathustra which are represented in the Syriac and Arabic MSS of that time. The Isma'ili Persian school's Arabic literature may be the most significant material to study those transformations of personality of Zarathustra between the 10th and 13th centuries.

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