Sepideh Najmzadeh

PhD Candidate
sepideh.najmzadeh@mail.utoronto.ca

Areas of Interest

  • Zoroastrianism
  • Languages
  • Archival studies

Biography

Sepideh is interested in the Zoroastrian divine world with a focus on the thirty-three divinities in the Zoroastrian tradition. Her dissertation centers on the commonalities between the content of the Zoroastrian New Persian text Vaṣf-e Amšāsfandān (“The Description of Beneficent Immortals”) and accounts found in Avestan and Middle Persian sources.

Education

  • MA, University of Toronto
  • MA, University of Tehran

Current Supervisor(s)

  • Enrico Raffaelli

Dissertation Title

The Description of Zoroastrian Divine Beings in the New Persian texts of the Vaṣf-e Amšāsfandān