Jenny Rose is Associate Professor of Religion at Claremont Graduate University and Visiting Associate Professor of Religion at Stanford University. She is the author of 'The Image of Zoroaster: The Persian Mage Through European Eyes' (2000).

'Jenny Rose's lively and engaging account comprises a very readable, well informed survey of Zoroastrianism and its history. The book is a pleasure to read throughout, and the author's writing style is markedly beautiful, placing her very much within Mary Boyce's literary tradition. Rose has read widely round the subject, engaging with important primary and secondary sources and rendering her thorough treatment of Zoroastrianism fully up-to-date. I particularly welcomed her valuable discussion of Zoroastrianism in Central Asia. All in all, the book is a fine example of considered synthesis and compression. This is a book one wants to read from beginning to end without putting it down. It will find a warm welcome from students of the subject and their teachers.' - Almut Hintze, Zartoshty Professor of Zoroastrianism, SOAS, University of London; 'It is a tall order to explain and summarize well such a polyglot scriptural and religious tradition as Zoroastrianism, with its 3000 years of history extending across so much of Asia and on into the global diaspora. But Jenny Rose's excellent and highly informative book is a most impressive response to the challenge. Rose adopts a refreshingly new approach that is both matter of fact in style and thoughtfully conceived, as well as being derived from the best new scholarly work of recent decades.' - Alan Williams, Professor of Iranian Studies & Comparative Religion, University of Manchester; 'I.B.Tauris' recent An Introduction series to the major world religions and belief systems are among the most useful and well written for students up to undergraduate level.' - The Bookseller, 18 March 2011

• AcknowledgementsZoroastrianism: An IntroductionList of AbbreviationsMapsI: Zoroastrians Present and PastII: The Ancient Persians: Truth-Tellers and Paradise-BuildersIII: A Zoroastrian Presence from Seleucia to Sistan: The Parthian PeriodIV: Eranshahr: The Sasanian Center of the WorldV: The Zoroastrians of Central AsiaVI: Gabr-Mahalle: Zoroastrians in Islamic IranVII: Parsipanu: Zoroastrians in IndiaVIII: Zoroastrians Present: RevisitedIX: Zarathushtra Present and PastAppendix 1: Textual TimelineAppendix 2: The Five GathasAppendix 3: Outline of the YasnaAppendix 4: A Selective Historical TimelineGlossary of Names and TermsNotesSelect ResourcesIndex

Jenny Rose is Associate Professor of Religion at Claremont Graduate University and Visiting Associate Professor of Religion at Stanford University. She is the author of 'The Image of Zoroaster: The Persian Mage Through European Eyes' (2000).

'Jenny Rose's lively and engaging account comprises a very readable, well informed survey of Zoroastrianism and its history. The book is a pleasure to read throughout, and the author's writing style is markedly beautiful, placing her very much within Mary Boyce's literary tradition. Rose has read widely round the subject, engaging with important primary and secondary sources and rendering her thorough treatment of Zoroastrianism fully up-to-date. I particularly welcomed her valuable discussion of Zoroastrianism in Central Asia. All in all, the book is a fine example of considered synthesis and compression. This is a book one wants to read from beginning to end without putting it down. It will find a warm welcome from students of the subject and their teachers.' - Almut Hintze, Zartoshty Professor of Zoroastrianism, SOAS, University of London; 'It is a tall order to explain and summarize well such a polyglot scriptural and religious tradition as Zoroastrianism, with its 3000 years of history extending across so much of Asia and on into the global diaspora. But Jenny Rose's excellent and highly informative book is a most impressive response to the challenge. Rose adopts a refreshingly new approach that is both matter of fact in style and thoughtfully conceived, as well as being derived from the best new scholarly work of recent decades.' - Alan Williams, Professor of Iranian Studies & Comparative Religion, University of Manchester; 'I.B.Tauris' recent An Introduction series to the major world religions and belief systems are among the most useful and well written for students up to undergraduate level.' - The Bookseller, 18 March 2011

• AcknowledgementsZoroastrianism: An IntroductionList of AbbreviationsMapsI: Zoroastrians Present and PastII: The Ancient Persians: Truth-Tellers and Paradise-BuildersIII: A Zoroastrian Presence from Seleucia to Sistan: The Parthian PeriodIV: Eranshahr: The Sasanian Center of the WorldV: The Zoroastrians of Central AsiaVI: Gabr-Mahalle: Zoroastrians in Islamic IranVII: Parsipanu: Zoroastrians in IndiaVIII: Zoroastrians Present: RevisitedIX: Zarathushtra Present and PastAppendix 1: Textual TimelineAppendix 2: The Five GathasAppendix 3: Outline of the YasnaAppendix 4: A Selective Historical TimelineGlossary of Names and TermsNotesSelect ResourcesIndex