Across Iran and Central Asia To Find the worlds First Prophet
Paul Kriwaczek.
New York
vintage Books
2004.
xv, 248 p.
ill, map
24 cm.
first Vintage Departures edition.
index.
Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- 1 An Idea for Now -- The Golden Road to Samarkand -- The Greatest Gathering in History -- The Mullahs Forbid It -- 2 The True Philosopher -- Tolstoi is Sentimentalisch -- An Event in the History of Literature -- Zarathustra Passed Me By -- 3 The Great Heresy -- Martirs Del Pur Amor Crestian -- Sieges, Murders, Mayhem -- 'Asia Begins at the Landstrasse' -- 4 The Religion of Light -- Naqsh-e-Rustam -- In an Alien Flock -- Mani Lives! -- 5 The Mystery of Mithras -- And the Bull Dozes -- Londinium Augusta to Pons Aelius -- 6 The End of Time -- Alexander's Conquest -- The Prophet Daniel -- The Sect at the Dead Sea -- 7 By the Grace of Ahura Mazda -- The House of Cyrus -- The Conquest of Babylon -- The House of Darius -- Heaven, Hell and the Devil -- 8 The FirstProphet -- Noruz -- Religion is a Living Thing -- Ashura -- Good Words, Good Thoughts, Good Deeds -- From a Hymn of Zarathustra -- Notes and Acknowledgements -- Index.
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Zoroaster
Influence.
Zoroastrianism
Influence.
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BL1555
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K75
2004
Kriwaczek, Paul.
Iran
University of Tehran. Central Library and Documentation Center