FEZANA, the Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America, publishes this age appropriate history lesson for Zoroastrian religious education, prepared by Artemis Javanshir and edited by Tanaz Karai, documenting that contact between the Zoroastrian communities of Iran and India was largely absent until the close of the fifteenth century, when letters on ritual and law, the Rivayats, began passing between them from 1477 onward and continued for nearly three centuries.
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Reliability Tier2
A federation of North American Zoroastrian associations' own published religious education material, tier 2, used here as independent corroboration of the correspondence's late fifteenth century opening date alongside Encyclopaedia Iranica's scholarly account above. NotesUsed for corroborating that the Rivayat correspondence between Iranian and Indian Zoroastrians began around 1477 to 1478 and continued for nearly three centuries.
Citation
PublisherFederation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America (FEZANA)
URLhttps://fezana.org/wp-content/uploads/FEZANA-Lesson-5-Zoroastrians-Around-the-World-G6-8.pdf
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