Khorasan
Relocating the Prophet’s Image. Narrative motifs and local appropriation of the Zarathustra legend in Pre- and Early Islamic Iran (Part I – East Iran)
From the very beginning of Iranian disciplinary studies, the material concerning Zarathustra’s biography has been analysed in depth, firstly to identify the homeland of the Prophet and then to discuss the historical reality of this authoritative figure. Despite the divergences of opinion, emphasis has always been placed on the reconstruction of the figure of Zarathustra and much less on the socio-cultural context in which the image of the Prophet was cultivated.