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Abu al-Qasim Firdawsi, the author, worked for some 30 years on the Shahnameh, which …

This copy of the Shahnameh (Book of kings) was published by subscription in Bombay in 1906 by the Indian Parsi community.

KINDLE download. Article (PDF Available) ... more or less prominent translators to take on and furnish the job of translating the great work of Firdausi’s “Shahnameh”. ITEM TILE download. download 1 file . Originally composed for the Samanid princes of Khorasan in the tenth century, the Shahnameh is among the greatest works of world literature. Davis’s elegant combination of prose and verse allows the poetry of the Shahnameh to sing its own tales directly, interspersed sparingly with clearly marked explanations to ease along modern readers. Originally composed for the Samanid princes of Khorasan in the tenth century, the Shahnameh is among the greatest works of world literature. Shahnameh. Buy Shahnameh by Abolqasem Ferdowsi, Dick Davis from Waterstones today!

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Originally composed for the Samanid princes of Khorasan in the tenth century, the Shahnameh is among the greatest works of world literature.

Ferdowsi began the composition of the Shahnameh's approximately 100,000 lines as 50,000* couplets /distiches (bayts) each consisting of two hemistichs (misra), 62 stories and 990 chapters, a work several times the length of Homer's Iliad, in 977 CE, when eastern Iran was under Samanid rule. For print-disabled users. Originally composed for the Samanid princes of Khorasan in the tenth century, the Shahnameh is among the greatest works of world literature. Reveiw of Dick Davis' Epic and Sedition: The Case of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh Shahnameh in whole in 1851 which was a grand work of literature (Sorkhabi, 2011).

Shahnameh contains 62 stories, 990 chapters and 60 000 rhyming couplets which makes it the longest poem in the history of literature, a work seven times longer than the Illiad of Homer. The Shahnameh is a Persian epic poem of more than 50,000 couplets that recounts the pre-Islamic and Sassanid history of Persia and the story of the Islamic conquest. Books for People with Print Disabilities. Davis’s elegant combination of prose and verse allows the poetry of the Shahnameh to sing its own tales directly, interspersed sparingly with clearly marked explanations to ease along modern readers. Book Description: TheShahnameh, an epic poem recounting the foundation of Iran across mythical, heroic, and historical ages, is the beating heart of Persian literature and culture.Composed by Abu al-Qasem Ferdowsi over a thirty-year period and completed in the year 1010, the epic has entertained generations of readers and profoundly shaped Persian culture, society, and politics. B/W PDF download.