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    The Shahnameh (Persian: شاهنامه, romanized: Šāhnāme, lit. 'The Book of Kings', modern Iranian Persian pronunciation [ʃɒːh.nɒː.ˈme]), also transliterated...
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  • (Rostam's father was Zal). Nariman was reported in Shahnameh at the time of Fereydun. According to the Shahnameh, Nariman was one of Fereydun allies during the...
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  • one of the mythical characters in Shahnameh who was a pious and reliable advisor for Tahmuras. According to Shahnameh, Shahrasp benevolently taught king...
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    Ferdowsi (category Shahnameh)
    ابوالقاسم فردوسی توسی; 940 – 1019/1025) was a Persian poet and the author of Shahnameh ("Book of Kings"), which is one of the world's longest epic poems created...
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  • Here is a list of characters represented in the Persian epic poem Shāhnāmeh by Ferdowsi, including both heroes and villains : Arash Afrasiab Abteen Arnavaz...
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    Persian: تور, pronounced [tʰuːɾ]) is a character in the Persian epic Shahnameh. He is the second son of the legendary Iranian king Fereydun and brother...
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    Ismail's artists’ workshop: 31  and as the first project director of the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp. He gave painting lessons to Tahmasp when he was the crown...
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    (Persian: سلم) or Sarm (Middle Persian) is a character in the Persian epic Shahnameh. He is the oldest son of legendary hero and king Fereydun. It is believed...
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    The Baysunghur Shahnameh (Persian: شاهنامه بایسنقری) is an illustrated manuscript of the Shahnameh, the national epic of Greater Iran. The work on this...
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    first king (shah) of the Pishdadian dynasty of Iran according to the Shahnameh. The name appears in Avestan in the form of 𐬔𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬊 𐬨𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬙𐬀𐬥...
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    63 times in the Shahnameh, the national epic of Greater Iran. There are references to the Mazandaran of legend not only in the Shahnameh, but also in the...
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    Iraj (redirect from Iraj (Shahnameh))
    "Aryan") is the seventh Shah of the Pishdadian dynasty, depicted in the Shahnameh. Based on Iranian mythology, he is the youngest son of Fereydun. He was...
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    The Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp (Persian: شاهنامه شاه‌طهماسب) or Houghton Shahnameh is one of the most famous illustrated manuscripts of the Shahnameh, the...
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    The Great Mongol Shahnameh (Persian: شاهنامه بزرگ ایلخانی) also known as the Demotte Shahnameh or Great Ilkhanid Shahnama, is an illustrated manuscript...
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  • The Great Jalayirid Shahnameh is a supposed lost illustrated manuscript of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, the national epic of Greater Iran. It is thought to have...
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    Rostam (category Shahnameh characters)
    work was immortalized by the 10th-century Persian poet Ferdowsi in the Shahnameh, or Epic of Kings, which contains pre-Islamic Iranian folklore and history...
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    in the sea, or on the earth. Sad dar-e nathr and sad dar-e Bondahesh, Shahnameh and Garshaspnameh are among the principal texts that contain information...
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    Kurdish Shahnameh or Kurdish Shanama (Sorani Kurdish: شانامەی کوردی) is a collection of epic poems that has been passed from mouth to mouth, as part of...
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    (Persian: فرامرز) is an Iranian legendary hero (pahlavan) in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh ("Book of Kings"). He was son of Rostam and at last killed by Kay Bahman...
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  • Abu-Mansuri Shahnameh or The Shahnameh of Abu-Mansur (Persian: شاهنامهٔ ابومنصوری) was a prose epic and history of Persian Empire before Muslim conquests...
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  • The eleventh-century Shahnameh of Ferdowsi (d. 1020) preserves the earliest version of the Alexander Romance in the Persian language, following closely...
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  • Turan (category Places in Shahnameh)
    is the son of the emperor Fereydun. According to the account in the Shahnameh, the nomadic tribes who inhabited these lands were ruled by Tūr. In that...
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  • Chin Hend Andalos Babel Bahrain Makke Jeddah Nile Gorgsārān Shām List of Shahnameh characters Persian literature Persian mythology از آمل گذر سوی تمیشه کرد...
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  • Ferdowsi's Shahnameh. He was son of Rostam and at last killed by Kay Bahman. The book Faramarz-nama, written about a hundred years after Shahnameh, is about...
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  • Āzādeh (Persian: آزاده; lit. 'free') is a Roman tribute girl harpist in Shahnameh and other works in Persian literature. When Bahram-e Gur (Bahram V) was...
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    Iranian knight and one of the main heroes in the New Persian epic poem of Shahnameh (Book of Kings), the national epic of Iran. A member of the House of Karen...
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    omnipotence. (Masnavī II, 2539–2544; Masnavī II, 2523–2528) In the epic poem Shahnameh, written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE, the...
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    Bizhan or Bijan (Persian: بیژن) is one of the main Iranian heroes in the Shahnameh, the national epic of Greater Iran. Bizhan is son of Giv and Banu Goshasp...
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  • Mazandaran is a mythical land that has more epic and romantic legends and myths than any place in Iran, which is the most important land of the cultural...
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    Zabulistan (redirect from Zabol (Shahnameh))
    become popularized as the birthplace of the character Rostam of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, in which the word "Zabulistan" is used interchangeably with "Sistan"...
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