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ШАХНАМЕ. Т. 6 : ОТ НАЧАЛА ЦАРСТВОВАНИЯ ЙЕЗДЕГДА, СЫНА БАХРАМА ГУРА, ДО КОНЦА КНИГИ

Bibliographic Description

Шахнаме. Т. 6 : От начала царствования Йездегда, сына Бахрама Гура, до конца книги / Фирдоуси. – Москва : Наука, 1989. – (Литературные Памятники).

Author
Фирдоуси
Publisher
Наука
Year of publication
1989
Classification index (UDC)
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Language
Kazakh
Publication type
Book
Country of Publication
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Description

The "Shahnameh" (Book of Kings) is an outstanding monument of Persian literature, the national epic of the Iranian peoples. The "Book of Kings" describes the history of Iran from ancient times to the penetration of Islam in the 7th century. It is the longest poem belonging to the pen of a single author: its length is twice that of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined. The "Shahnameh" was written approximately between 976 and 1011. It was begun under the Samanid dynasty and dedicated to them, but was finished only after the fall of the Samanids. Ferdowsi wrote the "Shahnameh" over 35 years and gathered into the poem a great body of Persian folklore. In working on it he drew not only on episodes of Islamic history but also on ancient Iranian epics and the Avesta, the sacred scripture of the Zoroastrians. Ferdowsi also included in the poem a thousand couplets written by his predecessor Daqiqi, who died young and did not manage to complete his own work. The epic has extremely important linguistic significance. A book about kings, written entirely in Persian, it played a key role in the revival of the Persian language after it had fallen under Arabic influence. According to the author's own statement, Ferdowsi's "Shahnameh" contained 60,000 couplets (120,000 lines). To this day Iranians regard the "Shahnameh" as their greatest national work.

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