Shahnameh
Sign in to savethumb|Plate with a hunting scene from the tale of Bahram V|Bahram Gur and Azadeh. The imagery on this plate represents the earliest known depiction of a well-known episode from the story of Bahram Gur, which seems to have been popular for centuries, but was only recorded in the Shahnameh, centuries after this plate was created. Iran, [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]
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The Shahnameh is a major Persian epic poem that preserves ancient Iranian stories and legends, including tales like that of Bahram Gur that were popular for centuries before being recorded in the text. It remains significant because it documents mythological and historical narratives that shaped Persian culture and continue to be depicted in art across centuries.
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Book · Open Library
- Author
- Ferdowsi
- First published
- 1993
- Editions
- 5
- Subjects
- POETRY / Middle Eastern, POETRY / Ancient, Classical & Medieval, POETRY / Epic, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Persian Epic poetry, Translations into English, Poetry, History
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Key facts
- Poem.name
- Shahnameh
- Poem.image
- The Court of Gayumars (Cropped).jpg
- Poem.caption
- Court of Keyumars, 16th century miniature by Sultan Muhammad from the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp, Aga Khan Museum
- Poem.author
- Ferdowsi
- Poem.original_title_lang
- fa
- Poem.written
- 977–1010 CE
- Poem.country
Article
32 sectionsContents
- Composition
- Content
- Mythical age
- Heroic age
- Historical age
- Message
- Influence on Persian language
- Cultural influence
- On Georgian identity
- On Turkic identity
- Legacy
- Biographies
- Poets
- Persian historiography
- Alexander legends
- Illustrated copies
- Modern editions
- Scholarly editions
- Arabic translation
- English translations
- Other languages
- In popular culture
- ''Shahnameh-khani''
- Adaptations
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
- Persian text
- Adaptations
- External links
thumb|Plate with a hunting scene from the tale of Bahram V|Bahram Gur and Azadeh. The imagery on this plate represents the earliest known depiction of a well-known episode from the story of Bahram Gur, which seems to have been popular for centuries, but was only recorded in the Shahnameh, centuries after this plate was created. Iran, [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]
The Shahnameh, also romanized Shahnama (), is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between 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, 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.