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     Date birth : 1967
   Place birth : Netherlands
   Office adress : Faculty of Theologyp.o.box 95152300 RA Leiden
   Office Tel : 071 527 2585
   Email : A.F.de.Jong@let.leidenuniv.nl,       More : A.F. de Jong, also known as Albert de Jong and Ab de Jong, is Professor of Comparative Religion and Religions of Antiquity at Leiden University. He studied Theology and Persian in Utrecht, and Old and Middle Iranian languages at SOAS University of London. De Jong obtained his PhD in 1996 from the University of Utrecht, with his dissertation dealing with Zoroastrianism in Greek and Latin literature. Selected publications A selection of de Jong's works:[2] Jong A.F. de (2018), Spiritual Elite Communities in the Contemporary Middle East, Sociology of Islam 6(2): 116-140 Jong A.F. de (2017), Being Iranian in Antiquity (at Home and Abroad). In: Strootman R., Versluys M.J. (Eds.) Persianism in Antiquity. no. 25 Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. 35-47 Jong A.F. de (2016), First Man, First Twins: The Origins of Humankind in Zoroastrian Thought. In: Houtman A., Kadari T., Poorthuis M. (Eds.) Religious Stories in Transformation: Conflict, Revision and Reception. Jewish and Christian Perspectives no. 31 Leiden: Brill. 52–65. Jong A.F. de (2016), Parthian Heritage - Persian Culture; How the Shahnama became the Persian "National" Epic. In: Sharma S., Waghmar B. (Eds.) Firdawsii Millennium Indicum: Proceedings of the Shahnama Millenary Seminar, the K.R. Cama Oriental Institute Mumbai, 8–9 January 2011. Mumbai: The K.R. Cama Oriental Institute. 35-44 Jong A.F. de (2016), The Denkard and the Zoroastrians of Baghdad. In: Williams A.V., Stewart S., Hintze A. (Eds.) The Zoroastrian Flame: Exploring Religion, History and Tradition. London: I.B. Tauris. 223-238 Jong A.F. de (2016), Waar het vuur niet dooft: Joodse en christelijke gemeenschappen in het Sasanidenrijk, Nederlands Theologisch Tijdschrift 70(3): 175-186 (in Dutch) Jong A.F. de (2015), Armenian and Georgian Zoroastrianism. In: Stausberg M., Vevaina Y.S.-D. (Eds.) The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. 119-128