The Fractious Eye:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" The Fractious Eye: "
Shai Secunda

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1079150
Doc. No	:	LA122779
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685276-12341302‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Shai Secunda
Title & Author	:	The Fractious Eye: [Article] : On the Evil Eye of Menstruants in Zoroastrian Tradition\ Shai Secunda
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Numen
Date	:	2014
Volume/ Issue Number	:	61/1
Page No	:	83–108
Abstract	:	Like all religions, Zoroastrianism evolved, and its rich textual record provides us with the material to trace some of its developments across the centuries. This article attempts to reconstruct an ancient Iranian myth preserved in Zoroastrian tradition about the dangerous powers of the gaze of menstruating women, and traces its development as it grows out of the Avesta and interacts with Western philosophical traditions in the Middle Persian writings of late antiquity and the early middle ages. Like all religions, Zoroastrianism evolved, and its rich textual record provides us with the material to trace some of its developments across the centuries. This article attempts to reconstruct an ancient Iranian myth preserved in Zoroastrian tradition about the dangerous powers of the gaze of menstruating women, and traces its development as it grows out of the Avesta and interacts with Western philosophical traditions in the Middle Persian writings of late antiquity and the early middle ages.
Descriptor	:	Avestan
Descriptor	:	Babylonian Talmud
Descriptor	:	evil eye
Descriptor	:	Iranian mythology
Descriptor	:	menstruation
Descriptor	:	Pahlavi
Descriptor	:	Videvdad
Descriptor	:	Zand
Descriptor	:	Zoroastrianism
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685276-12341302‬