Cruelty against Leniency: The Case of Imperial Zoroastrian Criminal Law
The article examines the impact of Zoroastrianism on criminal law and legal theory during the reign of the Sasanian dynasty (224–651 C.E) in late Antique Persia. This was the historic period when Zoroastrianism was also the ideology of the Iranian state, which granted the Zoroastrian church extraord...
Main Author: | Janos Jany |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2023-02-01
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Series: | Religions |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/2/210 |
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