Persian language. It is regarded as a literary masterpiece, and is the definitive work of the ethno-national cultural identity of Iran.

Composition

Ferdowsi began writing the Shahnameh in 977 AD and completed it on 8 March 1010. The Shahnameh is a monument of poetry and historiography, being mainly the poetical recast of what Ferdowsi, his contemporaries, and his predecessors regarded as the account of Iran's

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