Author: RAUBEN LEYY, AMIN BANANI
Title: Shahnameh - The Epic of the Kings. The national epic of Persia by Ferdowsi
Description: Yassavoli Publications, Teheran, 2006. Gekartonneerd. Pp: 212. The Shahnameh 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 "distichs" or couplets, the Shahnameh is one of the world's longest epic poems. It tells mainly the mythical and to some extent the historical past of the Persian Empire from the creation of the world until the Muslim conquest in the seventh century.nThe work is of central importance in Persian culture and Persian language, regarded as a literary masterpiece, and definitive of the ethno-national cultural identity of Iran. It is also important to the contemporary adherents of Zoroastrianism, in that it traces the historical links between the beginnings of the religion and the death of the last Sasanian emperor, which brought an end to the Zoroastrian influence in Iran. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

Keywords:


See more books from our catalog: Geschiedenis