Laws of ritual purity : Zand ī Fragard ī Jud-Dēw-Dād, a commentary on the chapters of the Widēwdād / by Mahnaz Moazami
"Laws of Ritual Purity: Zand īFragard īJud-Dēw-Dād (A Commentary on the Chapters of the Widēwdād) describes the various ways in which Zoroastrian authorities in the fifth-sixth centuries CE reinterpreted the purity laws of their community. Its redactor(s), conversant with the notions and practi...
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Superior document: | Iran studies volume 19 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Iran studies
volume 19 |
Physical Description: | viii, 442 Seiten; 25 cm |
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Summary: | "Laws of Ritual Purity: Zand īFragard īJud-Dēw-Dād (A Commentary on the Chapters of the Widēwdād) describes the various ways in which Zoroastrian authorities in the fifth-sixth centuries CE reinterpreted the purity laws of their community. Its redactor(s), conversant with the notions and practices of purity and impurity as developed by their predecessors, attempt(s) to determine the parameters of the various categories of pollution, the minimum measures of polluted substances, and the effect of the interaction of pollution with other substances that are important to humans. It is therefore in essence a technical legal corpus designed to provide a comprehensive picture of a central aspect of Zoroastrian ritual life: the extent of one's liability contracting pollution and how atonement/purification can be achieved"-- |
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ISBN: | 9789004433946 9004433945 |
ac_no: | AC16544763 |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | by Mahnaz Moazami |