In fact, Shahnameh has countless references to heavily armoured knights facing each other using mace, axe, or swords.

Though formally Muslim, the Shahnameh nevertheless has a certain anti-Arab and anti-Turk bias.

In other words, the Shahnameh itself has become one of the main pillars of the modern Persian language.

This assertion has been called into question by Mohammed Moinfar, who has noted that there are numerous examples of Arabic words in the Shahnameh which are effectively synonyms for Persian words previously used in the text.

The Shahnameh < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s influence has extended beyond the Persian sphere.

This prediction of Ferdowsi has come true and many Persian literary figures, historians and biographers have praised him and the Shahnameh.

A handful of scholarly editions has been prepared of the Shahnameh.

The first modern critical edition of the Shahnameh was prepared by a Russian team led by E. E. Bertel, using the oldest known manuscript copies, dating from the 13th and 14th centuries, with heavy reliance on the 1276 manuscript from the British Museum and the Leningrad manuscript, dated 1333, of which the latter has now been considered a secondary manuscript.

She has written several poetry books in Persian and has also translated the famous Shahnameh ( the Epic of Kings ) into French.

His name has appeared in some of the important work in Persian literature, most notably in the Shahnameh.

The Safavid interpretation of this symbol is believed to have been based on a combination of historical legends like the Shahnameh, stories of prophets, and other Islamic sources.

The poet took the story from a book called the adventures of Garshasp and he states that it is a complement to the stories of the Shahnameh.

This is also the moral of many of the stories of the Shahnameh, the key text of Persian mythology.

* Shahnameh Mythological stories brought to life in a comic book format

Examples of Tajikfilm's success during the Soviet times are such movies as The Legend of Rustam, The Legend of Rustam and Siavoush, and The Legend of the Smith Kova, based on stories from Ferdowsi's Shahnameh ; First Morning of Adolescence ( Юнности Первое Утро ), which tells the life story of people living in Badakhshan in the beginning of the Soviet Empire, when its army was still struggling with the Basmachi movement ; a trilogy New tales from Shaherizada, based on Arabic tales One Thousand and One Nights.

Various fictionalized accounts specify the way of death: e. g. the Shahnameh states that the three thousand Mazdakis were buried alive with the feet upwards in order to present Mazdak with the spectacle of a " human garden ", whereas Mazdak himself was hanged upside down and shot with countless arrows ; other stories specify other torturous methods of execution.

Rostam is the champion of champions and is involved in numerous stories, constituting some of the most popular ( and arguably some of most masterfully created ) parts of the Shahnameh.

Also, on 14 May 2006, Washington Post Pulitzer Prize winning book critic Michael Dirda reviewed Dick Davis's translation " Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings " " This marvelous translation of an ancient Persian classic brings these stories alive for a new audience .".

Consisting of some 60, 000 verses, the Shahnameh tells mainly the mythical and to some extent the historical past of ( Greater ) Iran from the creation of the world until the Islamic conquest of Persia in the 7th century.

This portion of the Shahnameh is relatively short, amounting to some 2, 100 verses or four percent of the entire book, and it narrates events with the simplicity, predictability, and swiftness of a historical work.

According to Ferdowsi, the final edition of the Shahnameh contained some sixty thousand distichs.

Despite some popular belief, the Turanians of Shahnameh ( whose sources are based on Avesta and Pahlavi texts ) have no relationship with the ethno-liguistic group Turk today.

The Shahnameh < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s impact on Persian historiography was immediate and some historians decorated their books with the verses of Shahnameh.

According to Avestan sources, Afrasiab was killed by Haoma near the Čīčhast ( possibly either referring to Lake Hamun in Sistan or some unknown lake in today's Central Asia ), and according to Shahnameh he met his death in a cave known as the Hang-e Afrasiab, or the dying place of Afrasiab, on a mountaintop in Azerbaijan.

Abbās Khalili ( 1893 – 1971 ) wrote poetry in both Persian and Arabic and translated some 1100 verses of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh into Arabic.

According to historians, Mahmud had promised Ferdowsi a dinar for every distich written in the Shahnameh ( 60, 000 dinars ), but later retracted and presented him with dirhams ( 20, 000 dirhams ), the equivalent at that time of only 200 dinars.

The Shahnameh is an epic poem of over 50, 000 couplets, written in early Modern Persian.

In 2011, Azar Nafisi and Dick Davis discussed the role of women in the Shahnameh in conjunction with an exhibition on the 1, 000 year old Persian poem.

But in the case of Shahnameh, despite having more than 40 thousand couplets, all its verses are excellent.

The largest commissions of illustrated books were usually classics of Persian poetry such as the epic Shahnameh, although the Mughals and Ottomans both produced lavish manuscripts of more recent history with the autobiographies of the Mughal emperors, and more purely military chronicles of Turkish conquests.

The art of manuscript illumination also achieved new heights, in particular in the Shah Tahmasp Shahnameh, an immense copy of Ferdowsi ’ s poem containing more than 250 paintings.

Some experts believe the main reason the Modern Persian language today is more or less the same language as that of Ferdowsi's time over 1000 years ago is due to the very existence of works like the Shahnameh, which have had lasting and profound cultural and linguistic influence.

Akhavan's forte, like the bard of Tus, Ferdowsi, is epic ; more precisely, he chooses themes of epical proportion and expresses them with the same zeal that Ferdowsi uses in the Shahnameh.

A more distant analogue is the Persian tale of Rostam in the Shahnameh ( The Epic of Kings ), who kills his son Sohrab in single combat between two armies.

The collection contains three pages of the Shahnameh, an epic book of poems by Ferdowsi in Persian, and a Syrian metalwork named the Barberini Vase.

According to the foundation myth given in the Shahnameh, King Firēdūn (= Avestan Θraētaona ) had three sons, Salm, Tūr and Īraj, among whom he divided the world: Asia Minor was given to Salm, Turan to Tur and Iran to Īraj.

** Shahnameh ( Persian literature ; details Persian legend and history from prehistoric times to the fall of the Sassanid Empire )

Shahnameh, the word Turan appears nearly 150 times and that of Iran nearly 750 times.

This prose Shahnameh was in turn and for the most part the translation of a Pahlavi ( Middle Persian ) work, known as the X < sup > v </ sup > atāynamāk (" Book of Kings "), a late Sassanid compilation of the history of the kings and heroes of Persia from mythical times down to the reign of Khosrau II ( 590 – 628 ).

A comparison and contrast of " longevity in antiquity " ( such as the Sumerian King List, the genealogies of Genesis, and the Persian Shahnameh ) with " longevity in historical times " ( common-era cases through twentieth-century news reports ) is elaborated in detail in Lucian Boia's 2004 book Forever Young: A Cultural History of Longevity from Antiquity to the Present and other sources.

** Shahnameh ( legends and history of Iran from earliest times to the end of the Sassanid Empire )