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	ShaikhSiddiqui Firdowsi
		The Hakim Abu al-Qasim Mansur Firdowsi was born about AD 935 to a prosperous and educated farming family near the town of Tus in Khurasan province of Iran.
		Firdowsi, on the other hand, begins his Shahname with the creation of the sacred land of Iran in the east and with developments that lead to the breakup of the ancient Iranian world, culminating in the emergence of the independent states of Iran and Turan and their subsequent reunification.
		Firdowsi felt that in their evaluation of his work his peers allowed religious bias, racial and nationalistic concerns, and conflict of interest to interfere with a fair assessment.
	www.shaikhsiddiqui.com /firdowsi.html (1892 words)

	San'at :: Ages of Prosperity
		Firdowsi in the poem "Shah-name" glorified idealized mythological characters, in particular, the first ten kings of Iran in order to remind about greatness of pre-Islamic history of the country and consolidate peoples in their struggle for state independence.
		Firdowsi could catch and transmit difference in understanding of the rank and potential of the both mythological personages - Kayumars had no obstacles in his striving to help to the people and establish social prosperity, as for Djamshid, he faced such obstacle in a name of Iblis and delusion provoked by him.
		In the miniature it was reflected in a location of Kamayurs on the highest point of the scene, at a distance from the people looking at their king with blank awe, and Djamshid, as closer to earth interests and accessible for the bait, occupies the place among the other characters.
	www.sanat.orexca.com /eng/4-02/history_art7.shtml (1947 words)

	the biography of Hakim Abu al-Qasim Mansur Firdowsi - life story
		Firdowsi was born between the year 932 A. and 941 A. in a city of Khorasan called Tus (now part of Iran).
		Firdowsi remained almost all of his life in Khorasan except of a visit to Baghdad.
		Firdowsi began composing the epic of Shah Nameh in the year 975 A. and finally it was completed in the year 1010 A. after 35 years.
	www.poemhunter.com /hakim-abu-al-qasim-mansur-firdowsi/biography/poet-36543 (605 words)

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		Firdowsi was committed to restore and immortalize the past greatness of Khorasanians but there was no kings who was interested in his undertaking.
		Firdowsi completed it and present it to Mahmoud, but Mahmoud declined to pay the large sum originally he promised and dismissed him with a payment that Firdowsi regarded as insulting.
		These grand ideas of Firdowsi was the likely cause of Mahmoud's dissatisfaction as he, as a Turk and son of a slave, found his self-esteem offended.
	members.tripod.com /~khorasan/TajikPersonalities/FirdowsiofTus.htm (697 words)

	ShaikhSiddiqui Shahnameh
		The Shahnama of Firdowsi, an epical poem book of over 60,000 couplets, is based mainly on a prose work of the same name compiled in the poet's earlier life in his native Tus.
		Studying Firdowsi's masterpiece also became an absolute requirement for achieving mastery of the Persian language by all the subsequent great Persian poets, as evidenced by numerous direct and indirect references to the Shahnama in their works.
		The language that Firdowsi has used is uttermost clean and free of any vulgarism, sarcasm or offensive expressions.
	www.shaikhsiddiqui.com /shahnameh.html (638 words)

	Hobson's Choice: The Tale of the Linoleum
		He said things had been getting boring since his encounters with Rustam and Shirin, and he was delighted to see evidence that another Rustam walked the earth.
		Firdowsi is all the more delighted by the gleaming magnificence of Oakland in the summertime.
		Oakland, hard by the rugged crags of the star-scraping Mt. Diablo (which, I assure Firdowsi, is of such immense height it makes the earth like unto a tear drop in shape), is a worthy seat of heroes too.
	www.jamesrmaclean.com /archives/000023.html (641 words)

	THE IRANIAN: Firdowsi lynched in Granada, Kristopher Kolumbus
		THE IRANIAN: Firdowsi lynched in Granada, Kristopher Kolumbus
		The old, green, Tus turtle had crawled over the Sierra Nevada, a flash in the pan, in Andalucia smuggling his lovers in and out of the Alhambra Palace writing pornography for his son by the fire in Granada.
		Recording her suffering, she said, he was out of his head on drugs at Firdowsi's poetry reading slightly pitted with small-pox swearing in pink neon at Pablo Picasso wearing a bras.
	www.iranian.com /Kolumbus/2003/February/Firdowsi/index.html (617 words)

	Hobson's Choice: Dinner with Firdowsi & Scheherazade
		For all that, however, my life of monastic austerity has been succeeded by a succession of star-studded events including dinner with a prestigious fictional character, flights to glamorous Seattle, and trysts with the woman of my dreams.
		There was Afghani mandolin music playing softly in the dimly lit room (the light is cast by lights in a shelf, illuminating the mural while leaving the diners in intimate gloom).
		FIRDOWSI: It is said your faithful conveyance lured the wicked A_ to the mountains of your nativity, to the barren and harsh wilderness.
	www.jamesrmaclean.com /archives/000113.html (832 words)

	Introducing Persian Literature
		Poets such as Firdowsi (11th c.), Hafiz (early 14th c.), Saadi (13th c.) and Rumi (13th c.) are not only national treasures, they are known, read and appreciated throughout the world.
		Firdowsi's Shahnameh is the most famous epic in Farsi.
		The mausoleums of Attar and Khayyam in Neishaboor, and Firdowsi in Tus, both near Mashad, and the tombs of Hafiz and Saadi in Shiraz, are adorned with gold and other precious stones as a sign of Iranians' respect and devotion for their literary heroes.
	www.elam.com /articles/Introducing-Persian-Literature (1463 words)

	California Zoroastrian Center
		The Shah-Nameh was written in the latter half of the tenth century A.C. by Hakim Abol-Qassem Firdowsi of Toos (in the Khurasan province of Iran).
		Three centuries after the defeat of Yazdgard III, Firdowsi's composition saved the Persian language from the threat of extinction, thereby preserving the essential medium for protecting Persian culture.
		The result of a rulership which was not based in Iran, was the reemergence of Persian influence at the ruling level.
	www.californiazoroastriancenter.org /Educations/articles/AliM.html (695 words)

	Sassanid art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Apparently Sassanid carvings at Taq-e Bostan and Naqsh-e Rustam were colored; so were many features of the palaces; but only traces of such painting remain.
		The literature, however, makes it clear that the art of painting flourished in Sasanian times; the prophet Mani is reported to have founded a school of painting; Firdowsi speaks of Persian magnates adorning their mansions with pictures of Iranian heroes; and the poet al-Buhturi describes the murals in the palace at Ctesiphon.
		When a Sasanian king died, the best painter of the time was called upon to make a portrait of him for a collection kept in the royal treasury.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sassanid_art (1083 words)

	Azraqi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Abul-Mahāsin Abu Bakr Zaynuddin Azraqi was an 11th century poet who lived in Persia.
		Born in Herat, Firdowsi is said to have taken refuge in his father's house (Ismail Varrāq, "the book seller") on his flight from Ghazneh to Tus.
		He turned Alfiyya u Shalfiyya into poetry, and is said to have presented himself to Shamsudowleh Abolfavāris Tughan-Shah, son of Alp Arslan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Azraqi (124 words)

	Founder Myths in Iranian History
		It is not too much to suggest that ancient Iranian culture and civilization would be endangered by the myths of the Old Testament, as again later, in the time of Firdowsi.
		Firdowsi not only revived and made alive the Persian language, he really saved the self identification of the Iranians.
		Much more research is needed in this domain, but Firdowsi is revealed as much more than a great poet and teller of tales.
	www.rozanehmagazine.com /MayJune03/aNameeyeiran.html (704 words)

	FToI: A Brief History of the Iranics - Part III
		Considering culture, for example, "Firdowsi of Tus" played a great role, in the survival of the Persian language.
		Firdowsi who came from a Parthian district, revived the Persian language in his great epic work, Shahnama (the Book of Kings).
		Poets like Firdowsi, Rumi, Khayyam, Naser Khosrow, Fakhrodin Asad Gorgani (from Hirkania who wrote the beatiful Vis [or Veys] and Ramin) and Attar are all actually natives of the Parthian territories.
	freethoughts.org /archives/000646.php (1159 words)

	THE IRANIAN: Firdowsi lynched in Granada, Kristopher Kolumbus
		Wearing a bright-red jumpsuit, Hilfiger skullcap and wraparound shade, Khayyam was a brutal and confrontational bus driver in Calpe where his past was another country.
		Suffused with lust, Omar engaged in sexual intercourse with the window cleaner, Firdowsi.
		Such overwhelming evidence was enough to kill his wife who threw the Rubiyat out the window in Naishapur where each page of poetry became a rose for Valentine's day ripping through the spring blossoms of the almond trees - Norooz - Norooz - Aziz.
	www.iranian.com /Kolumbus/2003/March/Bus (427 words)

	Poet: Hakim Abu al-Qasim Mansur Firdowsi - All poems of Hakim Abu al-Qasim Mansur Firdowsi
		Poet: Hakim Abu al-Qasim Mansur Firdowsi - All poems of Hakim Abu al-Qasim Mansur Firdowsi
		Hakim Abu al-Qasim Mansur Firdowsi Firdowsi's Life The Shahname of...
		Firdowsi's Life · The Shahname of Firdowsi · The Role of Farr in Firdowsi's Shahname...
	www.poemhunter.com /hakim-abu-al-qasim-mansur-firdowsi/poet-36543 (342 words)

	Matthew Patay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		The founder of modern Kazakh literature's father, a prominent feudal lord, made sure that his son receieved a proper education, which at that time meant a mektap upbringing at the aul complemented with a Russian education at Semipalatinsk.
		The latter education was pivotal in Abai's grasp of the dynamics of his time; it enhanced his knowledge which thus far had been confined to the world Firdowsi (935-1020), Nizami Ganjavi (1141-1209), Sa'di (1213-1292), and Alisher Navo'i (1441-1501).
		Indeed, it was not until after becoming familiar with the works of Ivan Andrevich Krilov (1769-1844), Mikhail Urivich Lermontov (1814-1841), and Alexandr Sergevich Pushkin (1799-1837), that Abai became convinced that he could reshaped the views and the lifestyle of his tribe.
	aes.iupui.edu /rwise/NoteofMonth/matthew_pataySeptember2005Kazakhstan.htm (783 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Curtis, Persian Myths
		an epic in rhyme by the poet Firdowsi, which was completed in AD 1010.
		Books about the history of the past had previously appeared in the Sasanian period and during the rule of the Abbasid caliphs in the eighth century AD many of these books were translated from Pahlavi (Middle Persian) into Arabic, although in most cases both the original Pahlavi texts and the Arabic translations have been lost.
		However, writers such as Firdowsi, who were well acquainted with the earlier literature, ensured its survival.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/excurpep.html (1407 words)

	Sommerland: African and Middle Eastern Dragons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		During the reign of Mahmud of Ghazni (AD 994-1030) the Shahnameh or "book of kings" was written by Firdowsi, who retold the tale with notable differences, including the anthropomorphisation of Azhi Dahaka into Zahak, a human king with snakes on his shoulders who feasted on human brains.
		In Firdowsi's Shahnameh, Alexander the Great is juxtaposed alongside young heroes such as Faridun, as an explorer who defeats and claims Iran (Allan, et al., 1999).
		Climbing to the top of a mountain guarded by a terrible dragon, perhaps Azhi Dahaka or Zahak, the explorer discovers the well-preserved body of a holy man. A voice informs him his time of death is upon him.
	www.sommerland.org /ondragons/races/races_africamiddle.html (1615 words)

	Iran and China
		Among numerous facts that prove their age-long relationship, one also notices quite a few similarities between the Iranian legends (as told by Firdowsi in Shahnameh) and the Chinese legends.
		According to the studies made by Sir J.C. Coyaji in his scholarly book "Cults and Legends of Ancient Iran and China" there are many resemblances between religious legends of Iran and China.
		When the war between Iran and Turan seemed to be endless, according to Firdowsi a duel was arranged between eleven champions on either side with the intention of preventing the indiscriminate slaughter.
	www.mihanfoundation.org /literature/iranchina.html (733 words)

	Shakespeare & Co Bookshop \| Paris, France
		Although sources of these tales have been lost over the ages, their memory runs through the collective psyche of the Iranian people.
		Handed down through generations, told by professional storytellers in bazaars and gatherings, these tales have been made popular the world over by great poets such as Rumi and Firdowsi.
		In her own unique voice - with style, charm and humour - Shusha Guppy narrates these timeless fables of princes and princesses; dervishes and miracle-working saints; jinns and giants; flame-breathing dragons and winged-horses; sorcerers and magicians.
	www.shakespeareco.org /events_guppy.htm (154 words)

	Workshop List
		This painting by Aqa Mirak from the Tahmasp “Shahnameh” (Book of Kings) is the first in the manuscript and shows Firdowsi (standing lower left), the author of the “Shahnameh,” as he meets three famous poets who will test his skills as a writer.
		This meeting leads to an introduction to the sultan, who commissions Firdowsi to gather the oral traditions surviving from pre-Islamic Iran and turn them into a unified poetical work.
		The figure at the upper right may be Shah Tahmasp, the patron of the manuscript.
	www.garageannexschool.com /workshop_show.php?id=105 (464 words)

	Iranian literature - Its impact on Europe and America from 17th century...I
		From among these the best-known in Europe are Firdowsi, Hafez, Sa’adi and Omar Khayyam.
		These great-men have inspired the world during the last three centuries and one notices their praise recurring time after time in various literatures of the world.
		Goethe was acquainted with Iranian Literature and time and again he talks about seven great Persian poets "Firdowsi, Anvari, Nizami, Mowlavi, Sa’adi, Hafez and Jami".
	www.mihanfoundation.org /literature/17th.html (967 words)

	The Social Affairs Unit - Web Review: The Secret of Laughter - Shusha Guppy
		It was her friend Ted Hughes who urged Guppy to write this book during a conversation about his renditions of Ovid, and The Secret of Laughter is indeed a kind of Metamorphosis from Persia, full of magic and strangeness.
		Two of the tales Guppy selects to tell appear in Firdowsi's Shahnameh (The Book of Kings) and Rumi's Masnavi, but the rest have remained only in memory and would, as Guppy says in her foreword, "disappear if unrecorded".
		What makes the tales all the more wonderful is that they are told in the easy style in which Guppy first heard them as a child - ordered and conversational, free-flowing yet structured.
	www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk /blog/archives/000342.php (1097 words)

	Book of Iranian legends published in Chinese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		TEHRAN, Aug. 15 (MNA) -- Children’s Publishers of China has published a Chinese language version of a book of Iranian legendary stories translated by Yuan Denchi.
		The book includes twenty Iranian legends such as “The Battles of Hormuz and Ahriman”, “the Kingship of Jamshid” (the most famous of the legendary Persian kings, who reigned for 500 years), “the Kingship of Darius the Great”, “The Archer Arash”, “Ardashir Babakan”, and “Rustam”, the main hero of Firdowsi’s Shahnameh (Book of Kings).
		The book is written in simple and easy to understand language and has been translated for Chinese children and youngsters.
	www.mehrnews.ir /en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=103869 (163 words)

	ZAAZ-Other Zoroastrian Sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		The part I found most relevant was the Shahnameh translations decorated with beautiful old court painitngs.
		"The Epic Of the Kings" was written by Firdowsi Tusi and it is translated here by Helen Zimmern.
		The translated version is in prose and not in the poetic form as was originally written.
	aztec.asu.edu /worship/zaaz/others.html (298 words)

	Dhimmi Watch: Comment on "Stop ‘Arabising’ Malay culture"
		In Iran, though Iranian exiles differ over the likelihood, many who have dropped out of the mosques might, if the possiblity arose (i.e.
		The stories surrounding Firdowsi's Shahnameh, regarded as an instrument of linguistic independence, a defense of Farsi against Arabic, offer a guide.
		A very difficult task, but one worth attempting, if only to keep the Jihad manageable, with the true believers just a bit more demoralized, and on edge, and worried about internal divisions, than they might otherwise be.
	www.jihadwatch.org /cgi-bin/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=1621 (1030 words)

	What is Ajam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Since most Iranians could not speak Arabic, they were called Ajam, which was a derogatory word.
		It was Firdowsi (sometimes spelled Ferdosi), the famed Iranian poet of the 10th century who revived the Persian language by compiling his Shahnameh (Book of Kings), which recorded the history and mythology of Ancient Iran in almost pure Persian, thus saving it from becoming a dead language.
		Even today, thousand years later, every Iranian child learns and knows most of Shahnameh poems by heart.
	www.whatis.tv /Ajam.html (193 words)

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