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Shahnameh

The Shahnameh, also romanized Shahnama (lit. 'Book of Kings'), 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 (two-line verses), the Shahnameh is one of the world's longest epic poems, and the longest epic poem created by a single…

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Genre
Epic poem
Publication date
1010
Country
Greater Iran (modern-day Iran and Afghanistan)
Language
Classical Persian
Lines
c. 50,000 depending on manuscript
Media type
Manuscript

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Shahnameh

Nodes261
Edges260
Triples577
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.007663
Components1

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related to Sources · 45
Shahnameh → Alternative Iran, Arjomand, Arts Arisen, BRILL, Contemporary Art, Critical Spatial Practice, Cultural Relations An Overview, Dabashi, Diaspora, Djalili, Editions Complexe, Farmanfarmaian, Fatema Soudavar, Ferdowsi, French, Georgia, Géopolitique, Hamid, Indiana Academy, Iran
related to Poets · 43
Shahnameh → Alive, Angelic, Anvari, Asadi Tusi, Attar, Baharestan, Do, Eskandar-nameh, Famous, Ferdowsi, Ghaznavid, God, Haft Peykar, He, His, His Garshaspnama, His Khosro-o-Shirin, How, In, India
related to Persian historiography · 40
Shahnameh → Abru, Ajam, Al-Awamir, Al-Kamil, Al-Qasas, Ala, Alaiyah, Ayat, Below, But, Ferdowsi, FerdowsiThe Arab, Habab, Hamdollah Mostowfi Qazwini, History, Ibn Athir, Ibn Bibi, If, Ilkhanid, KayGhobadIbn Esfandyar
related to External links · 36
Shahnameh → Ancient Iran's Geographical Position, Art, ArtA King's Book, ArtShahnama Project Archived, Baysonghori ShahnamehPages, Brooklyn MuseumFolios, Cambridge Digital LibraryResources, Cambridge University, Characters, Edmond Warner, Encyclopædia Iranica, Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, Firdowsi, Great Mongol Shahnama, Helen Zimmern, Illustrated Manuscript, Internet Archive, Iraj Bashiri, Iran Chamber Society, Kaveh FarrokhText
related to Further reading · 36
Shahnameh → Bangladesh Bangla Academy, Bengali, Borjian, Commissioned, Eleanor Sims, February, Ferdousi, Firdausī's, Habib, House, Imazh-ha-ye, ISBN, It, Maryam Borjian, Moon, Māzandarāni, Nam-e, National Organisation, Nyköping, Nāme-ye Irān-e Bāstān
related to Heroic age · 35
Shahnameh → Afrasiab, Akvan Div, Alexander, Almost, Among, Arjasp, Bijan, Daqiqi's, Empire, Esfandyar, Faramarz, Garshasp, Goshtasp, Great, His, Kayanians, Labors, Manijeh, Manuchehr, Manuchehr's
related to Adaptations · 28
Shahnameh → Abulkasim Lahuti, Battle, Blacksmith, Hyperwerks, ISBN, It, Kai-Kavous, Kaveh, King, Kova, Modern English, Return, Rostam, Rostam's, Russian, Search, Sergey Balasanian, Sharif Bobokalonov, Sohrab, Soodabeh
related to Persian text · 25
Shahnameh → April, Archived, Bibliotheca Persica, CA, Costa Mesa, Critical, Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh, Ehsan Yarshater, Evgenii Eduardovich Bertels, Kings, Kritichesky, Mazda Publishers, Moscow, Nauka, New York, Nine, Paperback, Persian, Retrieved, September
related to Composition · 23
Shahnameh → Abu-Mansur, AD, Book, Early New Persian, Ferdowsi, Ferdowsi's, Iran's, It, Khosrow II, Khwadāy-Nāmag, Kings, Many, March, Middle Persian, Muslim, Pahlavi, Persia, Sasanian, Sasanians, The Khwadāy-Nāmag
related to Historical analysis · 22
Shahnameh → According, Arsacid, By, By Ferdowsi's, Ferdowsi, Great Parthian Families, House, Iran, Iranian, Josef Markwart, Pahlavi, Parthian, Parthians, Rostam, Rostam's, Sakastan, Sasanian, Seven Parthian Clans, Suren, The

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persian ferdowsi iran also epic rostam story based history work many edition poem isbn ferdowsi's translation cultural language volumes manuscript

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
ShahnamehCountryGreater Iran (modern-day Iran and Afghanistan)1.00infobox
ShahnamehGenreEpic poem1.00infobox
ShahnamehLanguageClassical Persian1.00infobox
ShahnamehLinesc. 50,000 depending on manuscript1.00infobox
ShahnamehMedia typeManuscript1.00infobox
ShahnamehMeterTwo rhyming couplets of 22 syllables in the same meter1.00infobox
ShahnamehOriginal titleشاهنامه1.00infobox
ShahnamehPublication date10101.00infobox
ShahnamehPublished in English18321.00infobox
ShahnamehSubject(s)Persian mythology, history of Iran1.00infobox
ShahnamehWritten977–1010 CE1.00infobox
Shahnamehis amonument of poetry and historiography0.90text
Shahnamehis aepic poem of over 500.90text

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