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If not for the Sasanian period and the copying down of numerous significant Zoroastrian texts, we would in all probability know even much less about this crucial pre-Islamic Iranian religion. Following the death of Alexander the Great, the empire he had made swiftly became the battleground of quite a few ambitious generals and former Achaemenid satraps. The bulk of the former Persian lands came...