This Festschrift is a collection of articles dedicated to one of the most distinguished scholars of Iranian Studies and a most prolific teacher of Zoroastrian and Kurdish literatures and religions, Philip G. Kreyenbroek. The volume consists of thirteen contributions, brings together some of the best-known experts in their fields to reflect the love and admiration of his students, colleagues and friends and are representative of some of his wide-ranging scholarly interests, including Zoroastrian literature and rituals as well as Iranian philology and mythology.
This volume was previously published by the Jordan Center for Persian Studies, University of California – Irvine.
Shervin Farridnejad, Ph.D. (2014), University of Göttingen, is a post-doc researcher and staff member at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna and at the Free University of Berlin. He has published monographs and articles on the Zoroastrian and Judeo-Persian literature, manuscript cultures and iconography, including Die Sprache der Bilder: Eine Studie zur ikonographischen Exegese der anthropomorphen Götterbilder im Zoroastrismus (Harrassowitz 2018).
All those interested in ancient, pre- and early Islamic Iran, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, Afghanistan, Central Asia and the Caucasus, and northern India.