The Zoroastrian Provenance of Some Islamic Eschatological Doctrines

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ID3944224
AutoresAli Akbar (0000-0003-4620-9953, The University of Melbourne, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen49
Número1
Páginas86-108
Fecha de publicación2020-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaStudies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0008-4298 • E-ISSN: 2042-0587
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0008429819844499
OpenAlexW2981284201
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas30

Zoroastrianism, as the major Iranian religion before the fall of the Sasanian Empire in the seventh century, exercised a deep influence on other religious traditions of the region around it. In particular, it has exercised a strong influence on the development of eschatological ideas in the Arabic and Islamic literature. This article explores some of the main features of the transmission of ideas from Zoroastrian sources to Islamic literature, focusing on doctrines regarding the judgment of souls after death. It argues that the Islamic literature that emerged in the first centuries of Islamic history borrowed several eschatological themes covered in Zoroastrian sources, and incorporated them into an Islamic theological system

Ancient history · Arabic · Empire · Islam · Theology · Zoroastrianism · Ancient Near East History · Byzantine Studies and History · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Philosophy