Auteur: Ferdowsi

‘The Shahnameh’ (The Epic of Kings) also transliterated as Shahnama 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. Consi …

‘Among the many national poets of historical Persia, Ferdowsi is perhaps the greatest…In this superb translation of the epic, the Western reader would not fail to discern clear equivalents of chapt …

‘Among the many national poets of historical Persia, Ferdowsi is perhaps the greatest…In this superb translation of the epic, the Western reader would not fail to discern clear equivalents of chapt …

Immerse yourself in the distant past with this epic poem from the Persian tradition. Penned more than one thousand years ago by the famed poet Ferdowsi, The Shahnameh weaves history and myth into a l …

Immerse yourself in the distant past with this epic poem from the Persian tradition. Penned more than one thousand years ago by the famed poet Ferdowsi, The Shahnameh weaves history and myth into a l …

‘The houses that are the dwelling of today will sink beneath shower and sunshine to decay but storm and rain shall never mar the palace that I have built with my poetry.’ —Ferdowsi The Shahnameh, The …

Infinity Beckoned illuminates a critical period of space history when humans dared an expansive leap into the inner solar system. With an irreverent and engaging style, Jay Gallentine conveys the tri …

The tenth century Persian poet Ferdowsi was the author of ‘Shahnameh’ (Book of Kings), the Persian national epic poem. The Persians regard Ferdowsi as the greatest of their poets and his enormous epi …

Whilst the notion of the Mystic East and Oriental wisdom was greatly romanticised by the Victorians and others, the shadow of colonialism has smudged the view. These great cultures are some of humani …

A fresh and compulsively readable new translation of the Persian epic Shahnameh, for fans of Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology and Edith Hamilton’s Mythology. A combination of myth and history, Shahnameh …