Ferdowsi
Persian poet, author of Shahnameh (940-1020) · Writers · Died at 80
Ferdowsi is read about 1,234 times a day, in 104 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 28 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?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.
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Imaginary depiction of the poet Firdausi. Folio from a Khavarannama (The Book of the East) of ibn Husam al-Din, 1476-1486 (cropped)
Abu Rayhan al-Biruni School- Nishapur , Amir Kabir ave - Tiling of Firdawsi poem1
Abu Rayhan al-Biruni School- Nishapur , Amir Kabir ave - Tiling of Firdawsi poem2
Al-Firdawsi, Sayr mulhimah min al-Sharq wa-al-Gharb
Avenue Ferdousi, Parc Monceau, Paris 8
Commemoration Day of Ferdowsi 1, May 2016, Mashhad 01.jpg?width=1200)
Ferdowsi and Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni in the Farhadnama (TSMK Ms. H. 678)
Ferdowsi khorramabadIn their own words 2
, Now there was fought a battle such as men have not seen the like.
O my son, thy lips still smell of milk, and thy heart should go out to pleasure. But the days are grave, and Iran looketh unto thee in its danger.
About this person
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.
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