A study of Pahlavi book  Sayings of AzarFaranbaq Farokhzadan * (scholarly/research)

The article aims to study a middle Persian book titled ‘Sayings of AzarFaranbaq Farokhzadan’. The book is comprised of 147 questions asked by Zoroastrians from their ‘herbad’ (leader) ‘AzarFaranbaq’ and answered by him.It includes questions about marriage, adopting and bringing up of children, guidance, cleanness and being dirty, conversion of Zoroastrians to Islam and its consequences, adultery with infidels, sins and good works, religious rites, donation, oaths and religious examination, loans and mortgages, not wearing Kusti, alms giving, waging war and buying wine from Christians. The writer has been the leader of Parsis Zoroastrians in 2nd and 3rd centuries A.H. during the caliphate of al-Ma’mun from Abbassid dynasty (198-218 A.H.). Some works, being important because of having religious and legal terms in middle Persian remain from him. The above book has been translated into English by The Indian Parsi scholar Bahram Gour Enklesaria in 1969 A.D. along with edited Pahlavi text and phonetic transliteration. No Farsi translation has been done until now.