Russia, Cairo, Istanbul, Berlin, Bombay, Tehran, Tashkent, Edinburgh, Bengal, and the USA, are examples of a few of the places where manuscripts can be found today. Many of these precious manuscripts dating from 13th -18th centuries have survived, and are held in museums and libraries throughout the world.
It is the most frequently illustrated Persian text and has retained its popularity in Iran today. The full translation in English is 9 volumes long!īy the 14th century it had become the custom of the King to commission their own new copy of the Shahname, written and illustrated by the best painters and calligraphers of their time. It took him about 35 years to write the poem and it was finally completed in about 1010 ad. He collected together the pre-Islamic stories, legends, history, myths and poems that had been told by storytellers, grandparents and holy men for hundreds and hundreds of years.įerdowsi wrote the epic in rhyming couplets. The Shahaname was written down by poet Ferdowsi (940-1020AD). for most accord with sense or anyway contain a moral." Ferdowsi Teachers and students will have their own questions to follow with the Shahname, but here are some starting points to help you get inside this story. I enjoy following a trail of questions and seeing where they take me. As a storyteller I always have questions about the stories I am researching, writing and telling.
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