Using Zoroastrian as well as Muslim sources, Jamsheed Choksy weaves an extraordinary picture of how a rich religious and social community adapted itself to the new religious order of Islam, sometimes compelled unexpected variations in Muslim traditions and ways of rule, and eventually declined. What emerges from the book is the poignancy of a community's disappearance from its ancient land and the power of the new Iranian Islamic world in the process of making itself. -- Oleg Grabar, Institute for Advanced Study In this study of Zoroastrians in Medieval Iranian society, Choksy creates, with exquisite eloquence, detailed knowledge, and empathy, a pioneering historical masterpiece out of the most disparate sources. A delight to read. -- Gernot L. Windfuhr, The Zoroastrian Cosmos and Logos Using Zoroastrian as well as Muslim sources, Jamsheed Choksy weaves an extraordinary picture of how a rich religious and social community adapted itself to the new religious order of Islam, sometimes compelled unexpected variations in Muslim traditions and ways of rule, and eventually declined. What emerges from the book is the poignancy of a community's disappearance from its ancient land and the power of the new Iranian Islamic world in the process of making itself. -- Oleg Grabar, Institute for Advanced Study

-- Patricia Cone, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Religious Studies Review