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A Karaite From Wolhynia Meets a Zoroastrian From Baku

A Karaite From Wolhynia Meets a Zoroastrian From Baku A KARAITE FROM WOLHYNIA MEETS A ZOROASTRIAN FROM BAKU DAN SHAPIRA Jerusalem In 1840, Avraham Firkowicz, a Karaite collector of manuscripts born in Lutzk in Wohlynia (then in the Russian Empire, but today in the independent Ukraine),' was travelling through the Northern Caucasus, searching for Jewish antiquities. In the fall of 1840, while in Darband, the most important city of Dagestan at that time, he arranged meetings with the members of differ- ent religious denominations, among them Armenians and Persian Shi'ites. He described these encounters in the long, and informative, Introduction to his Hebrew book, Abne Zikkarõn, which was published in Wilna (Vylnius, Lithuania) in 1871-1872. Among his other "exotic" encounters, he met a Zoroastrian from Baku (b'qw), whom he called "Bramin" (brmyn)' and "fire-worshipper", a common designation for Zoroastrians given by outsiders. The existence of a Zoroastrian community in Baku is known from oral and written communications, as well as some popular Zoroastrian brochures, but I have never come across any reference to such a community existing in Baku in the scholarly literature. This small frag- ment in Hebrew, therefore seems to provide testimony for the existence of a Zoroastrian com- munity there in the first half http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Iran and the Caucasus Brill

A Karaite From Wolhynia Meets a Zoroastrian From Baku

Iran and the Caucasus , Volume 5 (1): 105 – Jan 1, 2001

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© 2001 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1609-8498
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1573-384X
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10.1163/157338401X00125
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A KARAITE FROM WOLHYNIA MEETS A ZOROASTRIAN FROM BAKU DAN SHAPIRA Jerusalem In 1840, Avraham Firkowicz, a Karaite collector of manuscripts born in Lutzk in Wohlynia (then in the Russian Empire, but today in the independent Ukraine),' was travelling through the Northern Caucasus, searching for Jewish antiquities. In the fall of 1840, while in Darband, the most important city of Dagestan at that time, he arranged meetings with the members of differ- ent religious denominations, among them Armenians and Persian Shi'ites. He described these encounters in the long, and informative, Introduction to his Hebrew book, Abne Zikkarõn, which was published in Wilna (Vylnius, Lithuania) in 1871-1872. Among his other "exotic" encounters, he met a Zoroastrian from Baku (b'qw), whom he called "Bramin" (brmyn)' and "fire-worshipper", a common designation for Zoroastrians given by outsiders. The existence of a Zoroastrian community in Baku is known from oral and written communications, as well as some popular Zoroastrian brochures, but I have never come across any reference to such a community existing in Baku in the scholarly literature. This small frag- ment in Hebrew, therefore seems to provide testimony for the existence of a Zoroastrian com- munity there in the first half

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