Conférence - Touraj Daryaee : The Vision of the World in Late Antique Erānšahr

Collège de France - Sélection · May 28, 2026 · 52m

Frantz Grenet

Histoire et cultures de l'Asie centrale préislamique

Collège de France

Année 2025-2026

Conférence - Touraj Daryaee : The Vision of the World in Late Antique Erānšahr

Touraj Daryaee

Maseeh Chair in Persian Studies & Culture, University of California - Irvine

Résumé

The Zoroastrian texts supply kind of division of the world and the reason for it which is important for understanding the Persian view of the world in Late Antiquity. In the Middle Persian texts, we come across a story which is not present in the surviving portion of the Avesta, and that is the division of the world by…