Sohrab

thumb|250px|Persian manuscript painting: Rostam lamenting Sohrab

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Person.honorific_prefix: Pahlavan
Person.name: Sohrab
Person.image: Sohrab_and_Gordafarid_by_Joseph_Rotter.jpg
Person.image_size: 275px
Person.caption: Sohrab and Gordafarid
Person.native_name: سهراب
Person.native_name_lang: fa
Person.birth_place: Kingdom of Samangan (present-day Aybak, Samangan, Afghanistan)
Person.death_place: Turan
Person.death_cause: Killed in combat by his father Rostam, with neither aware of their kinship
Person.known_for: Battle with Rostam
Person.children: Borzu (in Borzu Nama)
Person.mother: Tahmineh
Person.father: Rostam
Person.relatives: Faramarz (half-brother)Zal (grandfather)Zavara (uncle)

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Gender: male
Place of birth: Samangan Province
Father: Rostam
Mother: Tahmina
Image: Suhrab (The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp).png
Significant event: Rostam and Sohrab

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present in work: Shahnameh
killed by: Rostam
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thumb|250px|Persian manuscript painting: Rostam lamenting Sohrab

Sohrāb or Suhrāb () is a legendary warrior in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh, best known for the tragedy of Rostam and Sohrab. He is the son of the Iranian hero Rostam and Tahmineh, daughter of the king of Samangan. The episode is one of the most famous in Persian epic: Rostam fatally wounds Sohrab in single combat, and only after the blow is struck do father and son recognize each other. The tale is widely discussed for its themes of fate, identity, and dramatic irony, with scholars noting how the audience knows their kinship while the characters do not.

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