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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Zoroastrian"”.
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Zoroastrian Philosophy in the Islamic World
This dissertation describes a school of Zoroastrian philosophy that flourished in the 8th to 10th centuries of the Common Era. It is the first analysis of the school in terms of its own definitions, distinctions, and argument patterns. The school is named the Dēnkard School after the central extant …
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Creating Shade in Arid Climates: A Welcoming Landscape Based on Zoroastrian Beliefs for the Towers of Silence
… public space. Towers of silence inherited from Zoroastrianism are stone cylindrical structures located on top of the hills within infertile land located south east of the city of Yazd. This historic site brings visitors from around the world every year but the microclimate of the site it is not …
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Pleasure Gardens
… a similar early image of ‘garden as paradise’ in Zoroastrian beliefs in ancient ‘Persia’.
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Astrology in the Torah: a comparative study of astrological themes in the Hebrew Bible and Babylonian Talmund.
… religious and ethnic communities, dominated by Zoroastrian culture, the Babylonian Talmud, the culmina- tion of generations of Rabbinic oral discussion of Torah law, was born. Contemporary divinatory practices prevalent in the pagan cultures of Classical Antiquity were seemingly reviled in both …
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Giving Architecture to Fire
For centuries, fire has been a sacred symbol from the eastern cultures to western regions. As one of the four states of matter, fire represents the great essence in our daily lives as an energy source with its warmth, light and aura, kindling feelings of truth and spirituality within us. In his …