Shahnameh
Abolqasem Ferdowsi's "Book of Kings", the thousand-year-old epic that carries the memory of pre-Islamic Iran.
Core Characteristics
- Completed around 1010 AD after some thirty years' work, in nearly 50,000 couplets.
- Runs from the creation and the first kings through the hero Rostam to the fall of the Sasanians.
- Ferdowsi chose to write almost entirely in pure Persian, and the poem is credited with preserving the language itself.
Related Concepts & Sources
Persian, Heroic Virtue, Divine Kingship
Wikidata Authority Record
- Canonical Label
- Shahnameh
- Verified Description
- epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi
Identified as: epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi. Source: Wikidata Q8279.
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