Bu çalışmada Şia’daki imamet ve mehdeviyyet meselesi Zerdüştîlikte yer alan Ferre-i İzedî ve Saoşyant inancı ile mukayeseli bir şekilde ele alınıp, benzer yönleri tespit edilerek birbirinden etkilenme ihtimali tartışılmıştır. Zerdüştîlikte ferre ve Saoşyant kavramı Avestâ gibi o…
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Modern zamanlara kadar erken dönem Hıristiyanlık'ın bünyesinde neşet eden sapkın bir hareket olarak görülen Gnostisizm; varlığı gizli kutsal bilgi Gnosis ile açıklayan, aşkın bir yüce varlık inancına sahip, genelde düalist bir görüntü çizen, insanda kurtarılması gereken ilahi âl…
My dissertation examines the critique of Judaism in Chapters Thirteen and Fourteen of the Shkand Gumanig Wizar . The Shkand Gumanig Wizar is a ninth century CE Zoroastrian theological work that contains polemics against Islam, Christianity, and Manichaeism, as well as Judaism. T…
Günümüzde zaman zaman bazı örnekleri ile karşılaştığımız, insanlara kendisini mehdi veya bir kurtarıcı niteliğinde tanıtan ve bu kişilerin İslam dünyasında ayrı bir sorun teşkil ettiğini görüyoruz.
Symbolical parallels and similarities are naturally present in all major religions. Zoroastrianism, a religion founded by Zaraθuštra and with origins in Eastern Persia, has numerous similarities with the three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The purpose of…
Günümüzde yeni bir din iddiasında olan Yezidilik, tarih içerisinde geçirdiği süreç dikkate alınarak değerlendirilmesi gereken senkretik yapıda bir harekettir. Adi b. Müsafir, 11. yy.da Hakkari- Laleş Bölgesi’ne gelerek Adeviyye tarîkatini kurmuştur. Sünni çizgide başlayan Adeviy…
İnsanlık tarihinin başlangıcından bu yana insanlar manevi boşlukları doldurmak ve yaratıcıyla iletişime geçebilmek için ya doğal ve heybetli bir alanı ibadet alanı yapmışlardır ya da mimari tekniklerle bir mabet inşa etmişlerdir. Anadolu, Hindistan, İran, Mezopotamya ve Roma sın…
עבודה זו בוחנת את משנתו של ניטשה בשתי רמות פרשנות שונות, כבעלת ערך יישומי לבן העידן הפוסטמודרני. עידן זה מאופיין בהלך רוח אבסורדי המוביל לנקיטת אמצעים שונים לבריחה מפני הקיום, עד כדי גיבוש עמדה ניהיליסטית ביחס לחיים. מורכבות הגותו של ניטשה מתגלה כבר במעמדו הכפול, הן כנביאו הגדול…
This dissertation examines the ancient Iranian context of the Babylonian Talmud, the vast compendium of Jewish law and lore that the rabbis produced while living under the Persian Sasanian Empire (224–651 C.E. ) whose official religion was Zoroastrianism. While for decades schol…
This dissertation argues that YHWH's eyes were hypostasized in Persian period Yehud, as represented in Zech 4:10b and 2 Chron 16:9. The language of hypostatization is chosen in purposeful contradistinction from the language of demonization that has been previously proposed. The …
In the Path of the Prophet: Medieval and Early Modern Narratives of the Life of Zarathustra in Islamic Iran and Western India is a historical study of the discursive practices by which Zoroastrians struggled to define their communal identity through constructions of the central …
The Roman-Sasanian War of the seventh century CE was the last conflict of late antiquity. Šahanšah Xusrō II nearly conquered the Roman Empire. James Howard-Johnston has studied the war extensively. Walter Kaegi has produced a biography of Xusrō II's opponent, Heraclius, while Ge…
This brief, focused ethnographic study investigated the unique problems and adaptations of Zoroastrianism in North America and how they made it distinct from the religion practiced in the mother communities of India and Iran. The field research took place in the Zoroastrian comm…
This study examines the history of the Parsi community from their arrival in India until the middle of the nineteenth century, giving special emphasis to the impact that other religious and social systems existing in India had on the formation of Parsi identity and also to the c…
This thesis traced one of the roots of archetypal psychology to Persian theosophy and to its earliest origins in Mazdaism (Zoroastrianism). James Hillman has stated that one of the fathers of archetypal psychology is Henry Corbin who was a scholar of the form of Islamic mysticis…
The following work is a study of the church of Syria in the fifth century in its cultural context--that of Sasanian Persia. Narsai, the head of "The School of the Persians," is taken as the subject as his theology is studied and compared with the theology of his cultural milieu.…
As myriad opinions on the concept of the soul survive from antiquity, it is unlikely that the topic held only a simple theoretical significance. In fact, Greco-Roman philosophers show that the soul (psyche ) is important not only for the delineation of anthropology, but also bec…
The aim of this dissertation is to explore how Iranian identity maintains its continuity throughout its history. Despite changes in sovereignty and in religious thought, certain aspects of Iranian cultural identity have persisted from ancient times until now. The spheres of reli…
For over half a century, academic scholarship of the Babylonian Talmud (Bavli) has focused primarily on the dynamics of this work's internal textual (lower and higher criticism) and hermeneutical phenomena. This dissertation participates in a recent scholarly endeavor to conscio…