Yastasif (Gushtasp)

يستاسف الملك

King Yastasif who emptied the Isfahan hill-temple Maris of its idols on his conversion to Magianism and made it his fire-temple — still revered by the Magians in al-Mas'udi's day 1.

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Yastasif, a king of the Persians, who became a Magian in his time 1.

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al-Mas'udi reports that he removed the idols from the great house on a mountain-top at Isfahan called Mars, and made it his house of fire. al-Mas'udi says that this house is three farsakhs from Isfahan, and was revered by the Magians until his own time 1.

Sources

  1. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi, p. 538-539
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islam.museum contributors. “Yastasif (Gushtasp)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/yastasif/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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