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A Zoroastrian dispute in the Caliph’s court: the Gizistag Abāliš in its early Islamic context
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The Gizistag Abāliš is a ninth- or tenth-century Pahlavi text, recording a debate which took place at the court of al-Maʾmūn between a Zoroastrian priest and a heretical dualist. This article, the first in-depth study of this important work, examines the text in its broader Islamicate environment. It argues that the narrative itself is probably fictional, but reflects a real historical phenomenon, namely the interreligious debates which took place among Zoroastrians, Muslims, Christians, and ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Iranian Studies Journal website
- Volume:
- 52
- Issue:
- 1-2
- Pages:
- 61-83
- Publication date:
- 2019-05-13
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-03-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1475-4819
- ISSN:
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0021-0862
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1003538
- Local pid:
- pubs:1003538
- Deposit date:
- 2020-06-12
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- Copyright holder:
- Association For Iranian Studies, Inc
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Rights statement:
- © 2019 Association For Iranian Studies, Inc
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available from Taylor and Francis at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00210862.2019.1602470
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