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Perso-Aryan Studies
  • Āstānag
Apologetics 
gumānvizārīh

šak-ud-gumānīh-vizār

The Doubt-removing book of Mardānfarrox


Introduced, translated, and edited 

Ermān, 2015

​The Aryan and the Jew
How the Magi look upon the three « Judaisms »
 
guzastag abdallāh (GA)
The accursed ʿAbdallāh 

The Pārsīg treatise, guzastag abdallāh (GA), gives an account of a theological debate took place between the Manichaean ʿAbdallāh and the high priest Ādarfarrōbay in the presence of the Arab Caliph al-Ma'mūn (813-833 A.D.). It is said that the challenger was a native of Staxr in Persis and his name was Dēnohrmazd; and when he apostatized to Manichaeism, he chose the name ʿAbdallāh. The treatise deals with seven questions put forward by him to the high priest and the answers of Ādarfarrōbay – notice that in this text the word tāzīg means any Muslim.
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