The Shahnameh (Book of Kings), A Persian National Epic Poem Book By

The Shahnameh (Book of Kings), Persian National Epic Poem Book By Great Iranian Poet Ferdowsi. Printed by Vessal Bookstore. Circa 1950's, Tehran, Iran, Printed from old the hand written book in Farsi Language. 13" x 9.5" x 2". About: The Shahnameh, also romanized Shahnama (Book of Kings), 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 distiches or couplets (two-line verses), the Shahnameh is one of the world's longest epic poems, and the longest epic poem created by a single author. It tells of the mainly mythical but to some extent historical past of Iran 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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