Zoroaster
Sign in to saveZarathushtra Spitama, more commonly known as Zoroaster or Zarathustra, was an Iranian religious reformer who challenged the tenets of the contemporary Ancient Iranian religion, becoming the spiritual founder of Zoroastrianism. In the oldest Zoroastrian scriptures, the Gathas, which he is traditionally believed to have authored, he is described as a preacher and a poet-prophet. Some have claimed, with much scholarly controversy, to find his influence in Heraclitus, Plato, Pythagoras, and, perhaps less controversially, in the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, parti
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Zoroaster was an ancient Iranian religious reformer who founded Zoroastrianism and is traditionally believed to have authored the Gathas, the oldest sacred texts of that religion. His ideas may have influenced major Western and Middle Eastern philosophical and religious traditions, though scholars continue to debate the extent of his impact on figures like Plato and on religions including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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- Name and etymology
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- Classical scholarship
- Zoroastrian and Muslim scholarship
- Modern scholarship
- Late date
- Early date
- Place
- Life
- Cypress of Kashmar
- Influences
- In Christianity and Judaism
- In Islam
- Muslim scholastic views
- Ahmadiyya view
- In Manichaeism
- In the Bahá'í Faith
- Philosophy
- Iconography
- Western references to Zoroaster and Zoroastrianism
- In classical antiquity
- In the modern era
- Notable influence on modern Western culture
- See also
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Zarathushtra Spitama, more commonly known as Zoroaster or Zarathustra, was an Iranian religious reformer who challenged the tenets of the contemporary Ancient Iranian religion, becoming the spiritual founder of Zoroastrianism. In the oldest Zoroastrian scriptures, the Gathas, which he is traditionally believed to have authored, he is described as a preacher and a poet-prophet. Some have claimed, with much scholarly controversy, to find his influence in Heraclitus, Plato, Pythagoras, and, perhaps less controversially, in the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, particularly through concepts of cosmic dualism and personal morality.
He spoke an Old Iranian language, named Avestan by scholars after the corpus of Zoroastrian religious texts written in that language. Based on this, it is tentative to place his homeland somewhere in the eastern regions of the Greater Iran (possibly Bactra, now in modern-day Afghanistan). His life is traditionally dated to sometime around the 7th and 6th centuries BC; though most scholars, using linguistic and socio-cultural evidence, suggest a dating to somewhere in the 2nd millennium BC.