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"We know that groups of priests and lay people from various Iranian Zoroastrian communities were engaged in some manner in the writing of most of these letters, but exactly how they participated is often unclear,” stated Jamie O’Connell, sixth year PhD student at Princeton University’s department of Near Eastern Studies. She had delivered a talk titled "From Surat to Isfahan: Composing a Zoroastrian Rivayat in 17th century Iran” at The K. R. Cama Oriental Institute on July 26, 2023 and responded to questions from Parsiana via email. The Rivayats "are among the most important yet least studied sources for late medieval and......