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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, November 08, 2024 4:00 pm to 6:00
  pm \n Room 200B \n Bancroft Building (4 Bancroft Avenue, Toronto) \n\nSp
 eakers \nTouraj Daryaee, Professor, University of California, Irvine \n
 \nDescription: \nThe Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studie
 s in collaboration with the Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of Nort
 h America, the Ontario Zoroastrian Community Foundation, the Zoroastrian
  Society of Ontario, and the Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation jointly pre
 sents Mazdak: The Holy Man of Late Antique Ērānšahr on Friday, November 8
 , 2024, at 4 p.m. (Eastern Time: Canada & US).Abstract: Mazdak, son of 
 Bāmdād’s life and career has been of a truly exceptional character in Iran
 ian history. Remembered in Zoroastrian Middle Persian literature as the fo
 remost of heretics (ahlāmogān ahlāmog), and in Perso-Arabic literature as
  a harbinger of change, Mazdak’s popularization in the twentieth century 
 among the Soviet bloc scholars was as a proto-Socialist revolutionary. Mor
 e recently, Mazdak has been interpretated as a Gnostic-like prophet, who
  continues to garner interest for those engaged in Iranian and Near Easter
 n history. This talk takes Mazdak as a Zoroastrian priest whose worldview 
 may have been tinged by Gnosticism, though still working within the frame
 work of the Zoroastrian tradition, and whose message resonated with an im
 portant segment of the population. Thus, we can see him as a holy man of 
 the late antique Iranian world who was responsible for major shifts in soc
 iety and in religious life.Bio: Touraj Daryaee holds the Maseeh Endowed Ch
 air in Persian Studies & Culture and is the Director of the Dr. Samuel M. 
 Jordan Center for Persian Studies, University of California, Irvine. His
  book Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire (I. B. Tauris, 2009
 ) won the BRISMES Award. His edited volume, The Oxford Handbook of Irania
 n History (Oxford University Press, 2012), was chosen as one of the top 
 25 academic books of the year by Choice magazine and described as “the bes
 t single volume on the history of the Iranian world.” He is the editor of 
 DABIR: Digital Archives of Brief Notes and Iran Review with E.J. Brill-De 
 Gruyter, of Sasanian Studies with Otto Harrassowitz, and of the web proj
 ect Sasanika: Late Antique Near East Project at UC Irvine. His articles ha
 ve appeared both in English and Persian in Iranian Studies, Iran, Iranis
 tik, Studia Iranica, Res Orientalis, Historia, Electrum, Indo-Iranian
  Journal, Journal of Indo-European Studies, Iranshenasi, Iran Nameh, N
 ame-ye Baharestan, and Name-ye Iran-e Bastan.Zoom Registration Link for V
 irtual Attendance: https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvdO2urjksG
 9GuiuwIhzm9AEqksm... After registering, you will receive a confirmation e
 mail containing information about joining the meeting. \n\nCategories \n S
 eminarsThe Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies \n\nAudi
 ences \n Alumni and FriendsCommunityFacultyGraduate StudentsProspective St
 udentsStaffUndergraduate StudentsGeneral Public
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SUMMARY:Zoroastrian Studies Seminar Series: The Holy Man of Late Antique Ēr
 ānšahr
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.nmc.utoronto.ca/events/zoroastrian-studies-seminar
 -series-holy-man-late-antique-%C4%93r%C4%81n%C5%A1ahr
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