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TAGS: * Zoroastrianism; Houris (huris); Maid of Heaven
Abstract:
Zoroastrian origins of the image of the 'Maid of Heaven,' as it occurs in Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh; connotations of the term dín (religion) and its etymological root in ancient Avesta, Daéná, the 'Maiden of Heaven.'

Daéná-Dén-Dín:

The Zoroastrian Heritage of the 'Maid of Heaven' in the Tablets of Bahá'u'llá

Kamran Ekbal

published in Scripture and Revelation: Papers presented at the First Irfan Colloquium

ed. Moojan Momen, pp. 125-169

Oxford: George Ronald, 1997

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