# Ferdowsi

> He spent three decades writing the longest epic poem ever composed by a single author — 60,000 couplets bridging pre-Islamic myth and post-Islamic memory, carrying Persian identity through conquest and language shift.

*Persian poet, author of Shahnameh (940–1020)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/ferdowsi

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Born:** 0940-01-03
- **Died:** 1020
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Abolqasem Mansour bin Hassan Tusi was born in 940 to a family of landed gentry, came of age under the Samanid kings who championed Persian language and thought, and began composing the Shahnameh at thirty, working from an earlier prose chronicle called the Abu-Mansuri Shahnameh. He completed the first edition in 995, then a second in 1010, weaving Zoroastrian cosmology, ancient ritual, and kingly lore into verse that linked Iran before and after Islam. He knew Arabic but drew his material from older Persian sources and the peasant culture he grew up in, treating wisdom as the root of all virtue and his epic as intellectual work, not fiction. He wrote one other confirmed poem: a satire condemning Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni. Ferdowsi died in 1025, leaving a text that Persians, Turks, and Indians would carry for a thousand years.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 74.1 / 100
- **Momentum:** 2.1 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 24.9 / 100
- **Now attention:** 8.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 60.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #225

## Topics
#Writers, #Writer / Author, #Poetry, #Literature, #Medieval Era

## Sources
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43459)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdowsi)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Ferdowsi)
- [أبو القاسم الفردوسي‌](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%E2%80%8C)
- [الفردوسى](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%89)
- [Ferdousí](https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdous%C3%AD)
- [ফিৰদৌসী](https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%BF%E0%A7%B0%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%8C%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%80)
- [Firdausi](https://avk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firdausi)
- [فردوسی](https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C)
- [Firdovsi](https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firdovsi)
- [Firdousis](https://bat_smg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firdousis)
- [Фирҙәүси](https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B8%D1%80%D2%99%D3%99%D2%AF%D1%81%D0%B8)
- [Фірдаўсі](https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%96%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%9E%D1%81%D1%96)
- [Фірдаўсі](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%96%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%9E%D1%81%D1%96)
- [Фирдоуси](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%83%D1%81%D0%B8)
- [ফেরদৌসী](https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AB%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%8C%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%80)
- [Ferdowsi](https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdowsi)
- [Firdusi](https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firdusi)
- [Firdawsí](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firdaws%C3%AD)
- [Ferdowsi](https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdowsi)
- [فیردەوسی](https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%AF%DB%95%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C)
- [Firdausí](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firdaus%C3%AD)
- [Фирдоуси](https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%83%D1%81%D0%B8)
- [Firdausi](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firdausi)
- [Firdausi](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firdausi)
- [Fırdewsi](https://diq.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C4%B1rdewsi)
- [Wikiquote](https://ar.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%E2%80%8C)
- [Wikiquote](https://az.wikiquote.org/wiki/%C6%8Fb%C3%BClqas%C4%B1m_Firdovsi)
- [Wikiquote](https://bn.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AB%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%8C%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%80)
- [Wikiquote](https://de.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ab%C5%AB_l-Q%C4%81sem-e_Ferdous%C4%AB)

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