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“Some scholars maintain that we should not even talk of “Zoroastrianism” in terms of a religion with a systematized collection of beliefs and praxes, until the late Sasanian or early Islamic period—that is, until the sixth to tenth centuries CE.” quote by Jenny Rose — Download Open image

““Some scholars maintain that we should not even talk of “Zoroastrianism” in terms of a religion with a systematized collection of beliefs and praxes, until the late Sasanian or early Islamic period—that is, until the sixth to tenth centuries CE.””

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