The Reward of the Righteous

Festschrift in Honour of Almut Hintze

edited by Alberto Cantera, Maria Macuch and Nicholas Sims-Williams

Book cover: The Reward of the Righteous

Extent: 574 pages

Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag

Subjects: Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies, Religious Studies

Series: Iranica

Series volume number: 30

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(May 2022)

ISBN: 9783447118408

Price: $134.00

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The volume is dedicated to one of the foremost scholars in the field of Zoroastrian and Iranian Studies, reflecting the broad range of scholarly interests and research work of the dedicatee. In addition to an appreciation of Almut Hintze’s work and a bibliography of her publications, the volume contains thirty-four contributions written by renowned specialists in their fields.


The volume is dedicated to one of the foremost scholars in the field of Zoroastrian and Iranian Studies, reflecting the broad range of scholarly interests and research work of the dedicatee. In addition to an appreciation of Almut Hintze’s work and a bibliography of her publications, the volume contains thirty-four contributions written by renowned specialists in their fields. These cover a wide range of topics, stretching from antiquity to the present, and offer many new insights and original perspectives on religious, linguistic and historical problems. The articles, which include many editions of previously unpublished texts, encompass studies on (1) The oldest Zoroastrian textual sources (A. Ahmadi; J. Kellens; A. Panaino; M. Schwartz); (2) The Zoroastrian ritual (A. Cantera; E. Filippone; F. Kotwal; J. Martinez Porro; C. Redard; Y. Vevaina); (3) Avestan manuscripts (G. Konig); (4) Zoroastrianism in the Middle Iranian and Islamic periods (Sh. Farridnejad; Sh. Shaked); (5) Pahlavi texts, documents and inscriptions (J. Choksy/M.U. Hasan; J. Josephson; M. Macuch; D. Weber); (6) Zoroastrian and Manichaean iconography (F. Grenet/M. Minardi; Y. Yoshida); (7) Manichaean texts in Middle Iranian languages (A. Benkato; I. Colditz; E. Morano/M. Shokri-Foumeshi/N. Sims-Williams; N. Sims-Williams/Bi Bo); (8) Iranian philology (M.A. Andres-Toledo; Ph. Huyse; E. Jeremias; P. Lurje; M. Maggi; E. Pirart; A. Rossi); (9) Historical and cultural studies (C. Cereti; J. Palsetia; J. Rose; A. Williams).

  • Edited by Alberto Cantera
  • Edited by Maria Macuch
  • Edited by Nicholas Sims-Williams