Zoroastrian Priests - Tiridates I of Armenia, Magi, Maneckji Nusserwanji Dhalla, Kartir, Herbad, Jivanji Jamshedji Modi, Godrej Sidhwa (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Tiridates I of Armenia, Magi, Maneckji Nusserwanji Dhalla, Kartir, Herbad, Jivanji Jamshedji Modi, Godrej Sidhwa, Azar Kayvan, Meherji Rana, Mobad, Dastur. Excerpt: Azar Kayvan zar Kayv n (b. between 1529 and 1533; d. between 1609 and 1618), was a Zoroastrian high priest of Istakhr and native of Fars who emigrated to the Gujarat in Mughal India during the reign of the Emperor Akbar and became the founder of a Zoroastrian school of ishraqiyyun or Illuminationists . Exhibiting features of a Zoroastrianized Sufi order, this school became known as the Sepassian. According to Kevin Shepherd, Meher Baba described Azar Kayvan as the "last true dastur there has been no realized perfect saint amongst the Zoroastrians." Citations References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at A dast r is a Zoroastrian high priest who has authority in religious matters and ranks higher than a Mobad or Herbad . In modern usage the term dast r refers mostly to Parsi priests in India. References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Godrej Sidhwa Ervad Godrej Sidhwa was born in Karachi, Pakistan, in 1925, and studied Avesta, Pahalvi, Persian