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Shahnameh
The Shahnameh or Shahnama (Persian: شاهنامه, romanized: Šāhnāme, lit. 'The Book of Kings', pronounced [ʃɒːhnɒːˈme]) is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran. Consisting of some 50,000 "distichs" or couplets (two-line verses), the Shahnameh is one of the world's longest epic poems. It tells mainly the mythical and to some extent the historical past of the Persian Empire from the creation of the world until the Muslim conquest in the seventh century. Iran, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and the greater region influenced by Persian culture such as Armenia, Dagestan, Georgia, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan celebrate this national epic.
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- Ferdowsi
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- enCourt of Keyumars, Miniature by Sultan Muhammad from the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp . Aga Khan Museum
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- enThe Shahnameh or Shahnama (Persian: شاهنامه, romanized: Šāhnāme, lit. 'The Book of Kings', pronounced [ʃɒːhnɒːˈme]) is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran. Consisting of some 50,000 "distichs" or couplets (two-line verses), the Shahnameh is one of the world's longest epic poems. It tells mainly the mythical and to some extent the historical past of the Persian Empire from the creation of the world until the Muslim conquest in the seventh century. Iran, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and the greater region influenced by Persian culture such as Armenia, Dagestan, Georgia, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan celebrate this national epic.
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- Iran
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- enThe Shahnameh or Shahnama (Persian: شاهنامه, romanized: Šāhnāme, lit. 'The Book of Kings', pronounced [ʃɒːhnɒːˈme]) is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran. Consisting of some 50,000 "distichs" or couplets (two-line verses), the Shahnameh is one of the world's longest epic poems. It tells mainly the mythical and to some extent the historical past of the Persian Empire from the creation of the world until the Muslim conquest in the seventh century. Iran, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and the greater region influenced by Persian culture such as Armenia, Dagestan, Georgia, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan celebrate this national epic. The work is of central importance in Persian culture and Persian language, regarded as a literary masterpiece, and definitive of the ethno-national cultural identity of Iran. It is also important to the contemporary adherents of Zoroastrianism, in that it traces the historical links between the beginnings of the religion and the death of the last Sasanian emperor, which brought an end to the Zoroastrian influence in Iran.
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- Shahnameh
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- Classical Persian
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- enc. 50,000 depending on manuscript
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- www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/search/%3Fq=Shahnama+of+Firdawsi&prev_q=book+of+kings&x=0&y=0
- cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-00269/1
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- exchange.umma.umich.edu/resources/25693
- www.jstor.org/stable/4629424
- www.iranchamber.com/geography/articles/ancient_iran_geographical_position_shahnameh.php
- www.iranicaonline.org/articles/baysongori-sah-nama
- www.iranchamber.com/literature/shahnameh/characters_ferdowsi_shahname.php
- www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/khan6/hd_khan6.htm
- ganjoor.net/ferdousi/shahname/aghaz/sh1/
- kavehfarrokh.com/iranica/firdowsi-2/
- shahnama.caret.cam.ac.uk/new/jnama/page/
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- classics.mit.edu/Ferdowsi/kings.html
- archive.org/details/shahnama01firduoft
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- cfis.columbia.edu/shahnameh
- www.iranchamber.com/literature/shahnameh/shahnameh.php
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- Dick Davis (translator)
- Distich
- East India Company
- Encyclopædia Iranica
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- Esfandiar
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- Farah Khan
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- Fereydun
- File:Bahram Gur kills a dragon in India. From the Book of Kings (Shahnama) (CBL Per 104.60v).jpg
- File:Beaker illustrating tale of Bizhan and Manizha from the Shahnama, Iran, early 13th century, composite body painted over glaze with enamel - Freer Gallery of Art - DSC04677 (cropped).jpg
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- File:Firdawsi - Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) - Google Art Project.jpg
- File:FOLIO FROM THE SHAHNAMEH OF SHAH TAHMASP, ATTRIBUTED TO AQA MIRAK, CIRCA 1525-35, Sotheby,s.jpg
- File:Georgian manuscript (Shahname).jpg
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- File:Illuminated frontispiece (sarlawh) from the Shahnama of Shah Abbas.jpg
- File:IRAN Miniatur by UNESCO 1957 (8).jpg
- File:Isfandiyar's Fifth Trial - He Slays the Simurgh (CBL In 36.263 a).jpg
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- File:Plate with a hunting scene from the tale of Bahram Gur and Azadeh MET DT1634.jpg
- File:Rustam Kills the Turanian Hero Alkus with his Lance.jpg
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- List of places in Shahnameh
- List of Shahnameh characters
- List of women in Shahnameh
- Lubab ul-Albab
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- Uzbeks
- Vis and Rāmin
- Vishram Bedekar
- West–östlicher Divan
- Windsor Shahnameh
- Zabihollah Safa
- Zafarnamah (Mustawfi)
- Zahhak
- Zal
- Zal and Rudabeh
- Zoroaster
- Zoroastrianism
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- Manuscript
- Meter
- enLines of 22 syllables with two rhyming couplets in the same metre
- Name
- enShahnameh
- OriginalTitleLang
- enfa
- PrecededBy
- enKhwaday-Namag
- PublicationDate
- 1010
- PublicationDateEn
- 1832
- SameAs
- 4zT3s
- Den iranske kongeboka
- El Llibre dels Reis
- Épica dos Reis
- Kongebogen
- Liber regum (Firdusius)
- Livre des Rois (Ferdowsi)
- Lo libre daus Reis
- m.01bh6h
- Q8279
- Šachnamė
- Sáhnáme
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- Šáhnáme
- Šāhnāme
- Šāhnāme
- Şahname
- Șah-Namé
- Ŝahnameo
- Şahnamə
- Schāhnāme
- Schāhnāme
- Şehnâme
- Shahnama
- Shāhnāma
- Shahname
- Shâhnâme
- Shāhnāmé
- Shahnameh
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- Shāhnāmeh
- Shāhnāmeh
- Shāh-Nāmeh
- Shahnameja
- Shohnoma
- Sjahnama
- Syahnamah
- Szahname
- Xahname
- Σαχναμέ
- Шахнама
- Шахнаме
- Шахнаме
- Шахнаме
- Шахнаме
- Шахнаме
- Шахнаме
- Шахнаме
- Шах-наме
- Шах-намэ
- Шаһнамә
- Шаһнамә
- Шоҳнома
- Շահնամե
- שאהנאמה
- שאהנאמע
- الشاهنامه
- شانامە
- شاهنامه
- شاهنامه
- شاهنامه
- شاهنامه فردوسى
- شاهنومه
- شاہنامہ
- شاہنامہ
- शाहनामा
- शाहनामे
- শাহনামা
- ਸ਼ਾਹਨਾਮਾ
- சாஃனாமா
- షాహ్ నామా
- ഷാ നാമ
- ชอฮ์นอเม
- შაჰნამე
- シャー・ナーメ
- 列王紀 (伊朗)
- 샤나메
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- Category:10th century in Iran
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- Category:11th century in Iran
- Category:11th-century poems
- Category:Alexander Romance
- Category:Epic poems in Persian
- Category:Ferdowsi
- Category:Filicide in fiction
- Category:Ghaznavid Empire
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- Category:Iranian books
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- Category:Memory of the World Register in Iran
- Category:Persian mythology
- Category:Persian poems
- Category:Persian words and phrases
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- Category:Samanid Empire
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- Subject
- History of Iran
- Persian mythology
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