V osnove knigi lezhit tekst dissertacionnogo issledovaniya Zurvanizm kak fenomen duchovnoj kul′tury drevnego i rannesrednevekovogo Irana, zashhishhennogo avtorom na filosofskom fakul′tete MGU im. M.V.Lomonosova v 2008 g. i stavshego odnim iz pobeditelej konkursa na luchshuyu kandidatskuyu dissertaciyu, ezhegodno provodimogo uchenym sovetom filosofskogo fakul′teta. V issledovanii predprinimaetsya popytka rekonstruirovat′ fenomen zurvanizma, kotoryj ponimaetsya avtorom kak iranskoe religiozno-filosofskoe uchenie, ili krug idej, osnovannych na priznanii verchovenstva Vremeni i Sud′by i pessimisticheskoj antropologii. Za osnovu berutsya analogichnye izyskaniya zapadnoevropejskich iranistov, prezhde vsego R.CH.Cenera i CH.S.Nyuberga. Rassmatrivaetsya shirokij krug voprosov: metodologicheskie problemy issledovaniya zurvanizma, istoricheskaya eksplikaciya zurvanizma, problema poiska i opredeleniya ego idejnych istokov; rekonstruiruyutsya zurvanitskie mify, kosmologicheskie i antropologicheskie predstavleniya. Klyuchevye slova: zurvanizm, zervanizm, zoroastrizm, mazdeizm, mazdayasnizm, Iran, istoriya religij, religioznaya antropologiya. This book is based on the dissertation “Zervanism as the phenomenon of spiritual culture in ancient and early medieval Iran” which was defended in MSU in 2008 and won the prize as one of the best theses of that year. The author attempts to reconstruct the phenomenon of “Zurvanism” which is percieved by him as an Iranian religious-philosophical teaching or a circle of ideas based on recognizing the supremace of Time and Destiny and pessimistic anthropological thoughts. The author elaborates the conceptions of European iranists, mostly R.C.Zaehner and H.S.Nyberg. A wide range of issues is examined: methodological problems, zurvanite myths, cosmological and anthropological thoughts, its historical explications and origins. Keywords: Zurvanism, Zervanism, Zrvanism, Zoroastrianism, Mazdeism, Mazdaysnian religion, Iran, History of religion, Religious anthropology.