Shahnameh The Persian Book of Kings Among the great works of world literature perhaps one of the least familiar to English readers is the Shahnameh ThePersian Book of Kings the national epic of Persia This prodigious narrative compos

Among the great works of world literature, perhaps one of the least familiar to English readers is the Shahnameh ThePersian Book of Kings, the national epic of Persia This prodigious narrative, composed by the poet Ferdowsi between the years 980 and 1010, tells the story of pre Islamic Iran, beginning in the mythic time of Creation and continuing forward to the Arab iAmong the great works of world literature, perhaps one of the least familiar to English readers is the Shahnameh ThePersian Book of Kings, the national epic of Persia This prodigious narrative, composed by the poet Ferdowsi between the years 980 and 1010, tells the story of pre Islamic Iran, beginning in the mythic time of Creation and continuing forward to the Arab invasion in the seventh century As a window on the world, Shahnameh belongs in the company of such literary masterpieces as Dante s Divine Comedy, the plays of Shakespeare, the epics of Homer classics whose reach and range bring whole cultures into view In its pages are unforgettable moments of national triumph and failure, human courage and cruelty, blissful love and bitter grief.In tracing the roots of Iran, Shahnameh initially draws on the depths of legend and then carries its story into historical times, when ancient Persia was swept into an expanding Islamic empire Now Dick Davis, the greatest modern translator of Persian poetry, has revisited that poem, turning the finest stories of Ferdowsi s original into an elegant combination of prose and verse For the first time in English, in the most complete form possible, readers can experience Shahnameh in the same way that Iranian storytellers have lovingly conveyed it in Persian for the past thousand years.
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Free Read [Music Book] × Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings - by Abolqasem Ferdowsi Dick Davis Azar Nafisi ✓
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Title: Free Read [Music Book] × Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings - by Abolqasem Ferdowsi Dick Davis Azar Nafisi ✓
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Abolqasem Ferdowsi Dick Davis Azar Nafisi
Abolqasem Ferdowsi Persian , the son of a wealthy land owner, was born in 935 in a small village named Paj near Tus in Khorasan which is situated in today s Razavi Khorasan province in Iran.He devoted than 35 years to his great epic, the Sh hn meh It was originally composed for presentation to the Samanid princes of Khorasan, who were the chief instigators of the revival of Iranian cultural traditions after the Arab conquest of the seventh century Ferdowsi started his composition of the Shahnameh in the Samanid era in 977 A.D During Ferdowsi s lifetime the Samanid dynasty was conquered by the Ghaznavid Empire After 30 years of hard work, he finished the book and two or three years after that, Ferdowsi went to Ghazni, the Ghaznavid capital, to present it to the king, Sultan Mahmud.Ferdowsi is said to have died around 1020 in poverty at the age of 85, embittered by royal neglect, though fully confident of his work s ultimate success and fame, as he says in the verse I suffered during these thirty years, but I have revived the Iranians Ajam with the Persian language I shall not die since I am alive again, as I have spread the seeds of this language