Religious Texts in Iranian Lanaguages (Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters)
Religious Texts in Iranian Languages - In honour of Professor Ahmad Tafazzoli & Professor Jes P. Asmussen, edited by Fereydun Vahman and Claus V. Pedersen, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen 2007. (416 pages). I General Survey The Iranian canon of scriptures and writings, Shaul Shaked II H The Avesta and Indo-Iranian On the compositional structure of the Avestan Gahs. Almut Hint 29 The Composition of the Gathas and Zarathushtra’s Authorship, Martin Schwan; 45 The Avestan Yasna: Ritual and Myth. Prods Oktor Skjarvo 57 About spen.to.tma- and spәništa-, Antonio Panaino .85 The mythic theme of the great winter in ancient Iranian traditions .. Anders Hultgard 101 Une metaphore poetique indo-iranienne en armenien classique: ann. varkaparazi. Anahit Perikluutian 121 Zariadre et Zoroastre. Anahit Perikhanian 125 III Middle Iranian. God and his adversary in Manichaeism. Werner Sundermann 137 On the Legal Nasks of the Denkard, Maria Macuch. 151 Some Aspects of the Institution of sturih: Bodil Hjerrild 165 How has the Avestan xvarenah been interpreted in the philosophical Pahlavi Texts’? Philippe Gignoux 175 Remarks on the development oft he Pahlavi Script in Sasanian Times. Dieter Weber 185 IV Zoroastrianism in the Islamic Period. The two Zoroastrian Treatises called ‘ULAMA I ISLAM . • Francois de Blois 199 Some Primary Sources on the Early History of the Parsis in India. Carlo G. Cereti 211 Some Notes on the Magic Power of Holy Words in Iranian Tradition. Ferevdun Vahman. 223 V Early and Classical Islamic Period The Use of Persian as a Religious Language in the Early Centuries of Islam, Nasrollah Pourjavady 237 The Development of Koranic Commentaries in Early New Persian, AI. J. Yahaghi 247 Persian, Language of the Heart in Maybudi’s Kashfal-asrar, Annabel Keeler 263 The Alphabetical Body: Horufi Reflections on Language, Script and the Human Form Shahzad Bashir 279 Sufi texts as literature or literature as Sufi texts. Bo Utas 293 Is divan-e Hafez a religious text?, Finn Thiesen 301 VI Yezidls The Foremother of the Yezidis. Gornik Asatrian 323 Milyak’ate-qanj - The Phallic Deity of the Yezidis. Victoria Arakelova 329 VII The Babi and Baha’i religions The Persian Bayan and the shaping of the Babi renewal, Abbas Amanat 337 The Hidden Words of Baha’u'llah. Amin Banani 351 Persian language in the Literature of Baha ‘i Worship. Shapour Rasekh 361 Beyond the “Seal of the Prophets”: Baha’u'llah’s Book of Certitude (Ketab-e lqan), Christopher Buck .369 VIII 20th Century Islamic Texts The Hermeneutics of post-modern Islam: The case of ‘Abdol-Karim Sorus, Ashk Dahlen 381 ‘All Sariati and Kavir. Claus V. Pedersen. 409