Dāstānhā-yi Shāhnāmah-ʼi Firdawsī = Tales of Shâhnâmeh of Ferdowsi

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Barcode: 58958442 Call Number: FR-PER Fer Material Type: Audio -CD Date: 2006 Language: Persian - Farsi Creator: Firdawsi; recited and interpreted by Mohammad-Ja'far Mahjub Description: "The Shahnameh, also transliterated as Shahnama, "The 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 60,000 verses, the Shahnameh is the world's longest epic poetry written by a single poet. It tells mainly the mythical and to some extent the historical past of the Persian Empire from the creation of the world until the Islamic conquest of Persia in the 7th century." - Wikipedia Collection: Language Resource Center