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Christian C. Sahner - Definitive Zoroastrian Critique of Islam, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Definitive Zoroastrian Critique of Islam

Chapters 11-12 of the Škand Gumānīg-Wizār by Mardānfarrox son of Ohrmazddād

Av Christian C. Sahner

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Zoroastrianism was the religion of the ancient Persian kings and following the Arab conquest, it remained the religion of a significant portion of the population in Iran and parts of Central Asia. This book investigates the most important polemical treatise in the Zoroastrian tradition, the Škand Gumānīg-Wizār (“The Doubt-Dispelling Disquisition”), which was written by the theologian and philosopher Mardānfarrox son of Ohrmazddād. The text was composed in the ninth or tenth centuries in a language known as Middle Persian. A sophisticated work of rationalist theology, the Škand Gumānīg-Wizār systematically critiques several rival religions of the late antique and early medieval Middle East, including Islam. The critique of Islam found in chapters 11 and 12 is the only sustained, systematic polemic against Islam in premodern Zoroastrian literature, one that attacks monotheism by focusing on the problem of evil. The text is of fundamental importance for understanding Iran’s transformation from a predominantly Zoroastrian society to a predominantly Muslim one during the Early Middle Ages.This is the first book devoted to the Islamic sections of the Škand Gumānīg-Wizār. It provides a new translation and commentary of these important sections along with introductory chapters that explore Zoroastrians’ relationship with other religions in Late Antiquity and the early Islamic period; Mardānfarrox’s intellectual milieu (especially the influence of Islamic theology and interreligious debates); and the history of Zoroastrian polemics against Islam.
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Christian Sahner is Associate Professor of Islamic History at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Fellow of New College, University of Oxford. His work explores the transition from Late Antiquity to the Islamic Middle Ages, relations between Muslims and non-Muslims (chiefly Christians and Zoroastrians), and the interconnected history of Syria, Iran, and North Africa. His publications include Christian Martyrs under Islam: Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World (Princeton University Press, 2018) and Conversion to Islam in the Premodern Age: A Sourcebook (co-editor) (University of California Press, 2020).

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‘Un glossaire et un index complètent utilement cet ouvrage qui constitue à la fois une introduction très accessible à l’histoire du zoroastrisme avant et pendant la première période abbasside, un moyen de découvrir la pensée dualiste des élites zoroastriennes à partir d’une oeuvre qui vise à en dégager les premiers principes et à les défendre, et un outil de travail pour étudier cet exemple singulier de kalam zoroastrien et ses relations avec les discours musulmans contemporains.’ ‘A glossary and an index provide a useful addition to this work, which serves as both a highly accessible introduction to the history of Zoroastrianism before and during the early Abbasid period, a means of exploring the dualist thought of the Zoroastrian elites through a text that seeks to identify its fundamental principles and defend them, and a working tool for studying this unique example of Zoroastrian kalam and its relationship with contemporary Muslim discourse.’ Bastien Dumont, Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques Translated from French

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