Dēnkard III Language Variation and the Defence of Socio-Religious Identity in the Context of Early-Islamic Iran

The aim of the present paper is to illustrate as a case study, the linguistic and stylistic peculiarities characterizing the third book of the Dēnkard, one of the most authoritative texts in Zoroastrian Pahlavi literature (9th-10th CE). The analysis will consider these features as part of a coherent...

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Main Author: Terribili Gianfilippo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2017-10-01
Series:Open Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2017-0020