Abstract: An analysis of interrelated themes in Iranian religion, including the angelology of Mazdaism and Islamic Shi'ite concepts of spirit-body identity. Includes descriptions of cosmologies in Zoroastrian, Shi'i Islamic and Shaykhi philosophies. Notes: |
Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth:
From Mazdean Iran to Shi'ite Iran
translated by Nancy Pearson
Princeton University Press, 1977
originally published as "Terre celeste et corps de resurrection: de l'lran mazdéen a l'lran shi'ite" in French.
date of original: 1953/1960
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