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Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Şahnâme - Nimet Yıldırım #1)

Abolqasem Ferdowsi

Hardcover | Pages: 886 pages

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Original Title:	شاهنامه [Šāhnāme]
ISBN:	0670034851 (ISBN13: 9780670034857)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Şahnâme - Nimet Yıldırım #1
Characters:	Sohrab, Rostam, Esfandiar, Simorgh &...
Setting:	Iran, Islamic Republic of Persia

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Among the great works of world literature, perhaps one of the least familiar to English readers is the "Shahnameh: ThePersian Book of Kings," the national epic of Persia. This prodigious narrative, composed by the poet Ferdowsi between the years 980 and 1010, tells the story of pre- Islamic Iran, beginning in the mythic time of Creation and continuing forward to the Arab invasion in the seventh century. As a window on the world, "Shahnameh" belongs in the company of such literary masterpieces as Dante's "Divine Comedy," the plays of Shakespeare, the epics of Homer- classics whose reach and range bring whole cultures into view. In its pages are unforgettable moments of national triumph and failure, human courage and cruelty, blissful love and bitter grief. In tracing the roots of Iran, "Shahnameh" initially draws on the depths of legend and then carries its story into historical times, when ancient Persia was swept into an expanding Islamic empire. Now Dick Davis, the greatest modern translator of Persian poetry, has revisited that poem, turning the finest stories of Ferdowsi's original into an elegant combination of prose and verse. For the first time in English, in the most complete form possible, readers can experience "Shahnameh" in the same way that Iranian storytellers have lovingly conveyed it in Persian for the past thousand years.

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Title	:	Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Şahnâme - Nimet Yıldırım #1)
Author	:	Abolqasem Ferdowsi
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 886 pages
Published	:	2006 by Viking (first published 1010)
Categories	:	Poetry. Classics. History. Cultural. Iran. Literature. Fantasy. Mythology

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Who am I to rate or review Abolqasem Ferdowsi's ancient and classic Shahnameh, The Persian Book of Kings? Since I only know a smattering of Persian, nor can I comment on Dick Davis' translation from the original into English, which I have heard is excellent, but cannot verify. This is a volume which I dip into and will still be doing so in the years ahead, so I will take it from my currently reading list even though I am halfway. It is fascinating and I am enjoying it but that is not the only

What a ride! After almost 10 months, I finally managed to finish it. The book collects mythical stories about the kings and heroes of Persia and beyond (even Sekandar makes an appearance). It would be interesting to read about the historical accounts that survived.A slow read, that's for sure.

Much like the Bible's Old Testament, the Book of Kings is a veeeery beautifull piece of persian classic literature. I fell in love with it the first time I came into contact, and a good part of my love for the middle east and it's beauty was born with the last page of this book.

Dick Daviss English is the closest Ill ever get to Persias national epic, a multivolume poem condensed here to a version that leavens the inevitable tedium of the chronicle with a remarkable string of well-realized vignettes related in supple, vivid language. In Dicks translation, each of the many kings and heroes of Ferdowsis giant epic miraculously stay distinct, and you get enough of each storyespecially the famous Rostamsto develop a feel for the aesthetic predilections of classical Persian

I have an older edition of this book. I read it because it was mention in two other books I recently read. If you like epics, it is wonderful. It also includes a fore runner of "Rapunzel" in the story of Zal and Rubadeh which is better than "Rapunzel" for Zal refuses to climb up using Rubadeh's hair; he says doing so would besmirch it.

I am not so presumptuous as to review the Shahnameh. Does one review Shakespeare or Augustine? But I will comment on Dick Davis' excellent translation. Some people complain that it's written in prose; others complain that it's written in poetry. Yet the magic of this translation is the incorporation of the two. As he says in the introduction, Davis' goal is not to faithfully reproduce the tens of thousands of lines of poetry that took Ferdowsi 30 years to write. Rather, he opts for a combination

PERSIAN MASTERPIECES OF WORLD LITERATURE--RUMI'S "BOOK OF LOVE & SUFI POEMS," OMAR KHAYYAM'S "RUBAIYAT," ATTAR'S "PARLIAMENT OF THE BIRDS," NIZAMI'S "LAYLA & MAJNUN," FIRDUSI'S "SHAHNAMA," POEMS AND GHAZALS OF HAFIZ & GHALIB ---FROM THE WORLD LITERATURE FORUM RECOMMENDED CLASSICS AND MASTERPIECES SERIES VIA GOODREADS-ROBERT SHEPPARD, EDITOR-IN-CHIEFGoethe honored Persian Literature as one of the four great literary traditions of World Literature, or "Weltliteratur" as he named it. In