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Zoroaster (Persian: زرتشت) ( /ˈzoʊrɵ.æstər/ zohr-oh-as-tər; Avestan: Zaraϑuštra; born between the 18th and 6th century BCE) was an Iranian/Persian prophet and philosopher and the founder of Zoroastrianism. The spelling "Zoroaster" is a Greek derivation from an Old Iranian Zara(t-)ushtra ( /ˌzɑrəˈθuːʃtrə/ zar-ə-thoosh-trə) is a modern rendering of the Avestan pronunciation, though Zarathustra ( /ˌzærəˈθʊstrə/ zarr-ə-thuus-trə) is more commonly used. In the Middle Persian and thus modern Persian languages he is called ''Zardušt (with variations Zardosht or Zartosht).