Assistant Professor, ancient Iranian Languages and Cultures, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies
Abstract
A large part of the Zoroastrian religious texts were written in New Persian, Avestan and Pahlavi languages. Since the fourth and fifth centuries onwards H., the Zoroastrian religious texts have been quoted to new Persian. Although religious literature in Persian Zoroastrian have been reproduced again from Avesta and Pahlavi texts, but they are counted as important sources for studying alive Zoroastrian tradition in Iran after Islam. In this paper, 11 Zoroastrian manuscripts are introduced that now are kept in the National Library of Iran. Five of which have been written in Iran and the rest in India.
