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The Shahnameh for Young Readers

Author : Esta S.

Publisher : My First Picture Book Inc

Page : 176 pages

File Size : 20,49 MB

Release : 2024-09-01

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN :

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📚 The Shahnameh for Young Readers: Heroes and Legends from Ancient Persia for Kids 🌟 🌍 Step into a world of magic, bravery, and ancient wisdom with The Shahnameh for Young Readers! This exciting adaptation of one of Persia's greatest literary treasures is now ready to enchant young readers. Originally written by the legendary poet Ferdowsi over a thousand years ago, The Shahnameh—also known as The Book of Kings—is packed with epic adventures, mythical creatures, and timeless moral lessons. Now, we've simplified the language and softened some of the harsher elements to make these thrilling stories perfect for kids! Get ready for tales of legendary heroes, cunning villains, and magical beings as your child dives into Persia's rich history and culture. With 50 stories across 200+ pages, this is a collection that will inspire their imagination, teach valuable lessons, and keep them entertained for hours! 📖✨ 📝 What’s Inside: ✨ 50 captivating stories expertly adapted for kids 📖 Over 200 pages of mythical adventures and heroic deeds 💡 Simplified English to make the stories accessible for young readers 🎨 Beautiful illustrations that bring ancient Persia to life 🌟 Famous Stories Included: ⚔️ Rostam and Sohrab: The Battle of Father and Son – A tragic yet thrilling story of love, loss, and bravery 🦅 The Legendary Bird, Simurgh – Meet the majestic Simurgh, the wise and magical bird 👑 Zahhak the Serpent King – A dark tale of power, corruption, and redemption 💔 The Tragic Tale of Siyavash – A moving story about honor, sacrifice, and justice ⚡ The Defeat of Afrasiab – Watch as Persian heroes unite to defend their kingdom! 🎯 Why This Book? A Perfect Blend of Adventure and Learning! 📚 The Shahnameh for Young Readers is more than just a collection of stories—it's an immersive journey through the wonders of ancient Persia! ✨ Each tale is filled with excitement, suspense, and valuable life lessons that will captivate your child’s imagination. From the wisdom of great rulers to the courage of daring heroes, these stories offer a perfect mix of entertainment and education. We've carefully adapted these tales to make sure they are easy to understand and enjoyable for young readers, while still keeping the heart and soul of Ferdowsi's masterpiece intact. Whether you're a parent looking for bedtime stories or an educator seeking to introduce your students to world literature, this book is sure to become a favorite. 🌈 🌍 Perfect for Every Home and Classroom: 🏡✏️ Whether your child is hearing these tales for the first time or you're looking for a way to introduce the rich cultural heritage of Persia to your students, The Shahnameh for Young Readers is the perfect choice! Filled with moral lessons about courage, loyalty, and friendship, this collection will not only entertain but also inspire. 💡 With engaging storytelling and beautifully crafted illustrations, this book is ideal for family reading, classroom discussions, or independent exploration. Get ready to embark on a thrilling adventure into Persia's legendary past! 🏰✨



Rostam

Author : Abolqasem Ferdowsi

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 321 pages

File Size : 46,47 MB

Release : 2009-09-29

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 110114503X

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The selected adventures of Persia's Hercules, from Iran's great national epic No understanding of world mythology is complete without acquaintance with Rostam, Iran's most celebrated mythological hero. According to the Shahnameh (the tenth-century Book of Kings), this titan, magnificent in strength and courage, bestrode Persia for 500 years. While he often served fickle kings - undergoing many trials of combat, cunning, and endurance - he was never their servant and owed allegiance only to his nation's greater good. Anyone interested in folklore, world literature, or Iranian culture will find Rostam both a rousing and illuminating read. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout world history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.



Farāmarz, the Sistāni Hero

Author : Marjolijn van Zutphen

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 790 pages

File Size : 43,97 MB

Release : 2014-09-25

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 9004268286

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In Farāmarz, the Sistāni Hero Marjolijn van Zutphen discusses the manuscripts, storylines and main themes of the shorter and the longer Farāmarznāme (c. 1100), in relation to Ferdowsi’s Shāhnāme and several other later maṡnawis about the warriors from Sistān (the Persian Epic Cycle). Farāmarz, a secondary figure of the Shāhnāme, gained importance in later epic traditions and as the invincible protagonist of both Farāmarznāmes reached a status that equalled, if not surpassed, that of his famous father Rostam. Van Zutphen further shows how Farāmarz displays parallels to the fictional figures of Garshāsp (his ancestor) and Eskandar and argues that some story elements of Farāmarz’s Indian conquest may be rooted in historical events from both the Parthian and the Ghaznawid period.



The Colonel

Author : Mahmoud Dowlatabadi

Publisher : Haus Publishing

Page : 231 pages

File Size : 17,69 MB

Release : 2015-08-15

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1907822895

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A pitch black, rainy night in a small Iranian town. Inside his house the Colonel is immersed in thought. Memories are storming in. Memories of his wife. Memories of the great patriots of the past, all of them assassinated or executed. Memories of his children, who had joined the different factions of the 1979 revolution. There is a knock on the door. Two young policemen have come to summon the Colonel to collect the tortured body of his youngest daughter and bury her before sunrise. The Islamic Revolution, like every other revolution in history, is devouring its own children. And whose fault is that? This shocking diatribe against the failures of the Iranian left over the last fifty years does not leave one taboo unbroken.



Safavid Persia in the Age of Empires

Author : Charles Melville

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 496 pages

File Size : 28,72 MB

Release : 2021-02-25

Category : History

ISBN : 0755633792

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The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw the establishment of the new Safavid regime in Iran. Along with reuniting the Persian lands under one rule, the Safavids initiated the radical transformation of the religious landscape by introducing Imami Shi'ism as the official state faith and in this as in other ways, laying the foundations of Iran's modern identity. In this book, leading scholars of Iranian history, culture and politics examine the meaning of the idea of Iran in the Safavid period by examining contemporary experiences of both insiders and outsiders, asking how modern scholarship defines the distinctive features of the age. While sometimes viewed as a period of decline from the high points of classical Persian literature and the visual arts of preceding centuries, the chapters of this book demonstrate that the Safavid era was nevertheless a period of great literary and artistic activity in the realms of both secular and theological endeavour. With the establishment of comparable polities across western, southern and central Asia at broadly the same time, the book explores some of the literary and political interactions with Iran's Ottoman, Mughal and Uzbek neighbours. As the volume and frequency of European merchants and diplomats visiting Safavid Persia increased, especially in the seventeenth century, and as more Iranians recorded their own travel experiences to surrounding Muslim lands, the Safavid period is the first in which we can document and explore the contours of Iran's place in an expanding world, and gain insights into how Iranians saw themselves and others saw them.



The Epic of Kings, Hero Tales of Ancient Persia

Author : Firdausi

Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks

Page : 231 pages

File Size : 26,78 MB

Release : 2021-11-16

Category : History

ISBN : 3986778160

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The Epic of Kings, Hero Tales of Ancient Persia Firdausi - The Epic of Kings, Hero Tales of Ancient Persia (The Shahnameh) is an epic poem by the Persian poet Firdausi, written between 966 and 1010 AD. Telling the past of the Persian empire, using a mix of the mythical and historical, it is regarded as a literary masterpiece. Not only important to the Persian culture, it is also important to modern day followers of the Zoroastrianism religion. It is said that the poem was Firdausi's efforts to preserve the memory of Persia's golden days, following the fall of the Sassanid empire. The poem contains, among others, mentions of the romance of Zal and Rudba, Alexander the Great, the wars with Afrsyb, and the romance of Bijan and Manijeh.



The Ant's Gift

Author : Shahrokh Meskoob

Publisher : Syracuse University Press

Page : 248 pages

File Size : 33,94 MB

Release : 2021-07-09

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 081565510X

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Shahrokh Meskoob was one of Iran’s leading intellectuals and a preeminent scholar of Persian literary traditions, language, and cultural identity. In The Ant’s Gift, Meskoob applies his insight and considerable analytical skills to the Shahnameh, the national epic of Iran completed in 1010 by the poet Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi. Tracing Iran’s history from its first mythical king to the fall of the Sasanian dynasty, the Shahnameh includes myths, romance, history, and political theory. Meskoob sheds new light on this seminal work of Persian culture, identifying the story as at once a historical and poetic work. While previous criticism of the Shahnameh has focused on its linguistic importance and its role in Iranian nationalism, Meskoob draws attention to the work’s pre-Islamic cultural origins.



Iran

Author : Homa Katouzian

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 338 pages

File Size : 44,22 MB

Release : 2013-03-05

Category : History

ISBN : 1136172904

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This book offers a view of Iran through politics, history and literature, showing how the three angles combine. Iran, being a revolutionary society, experienced two great revolutions within the short span of just seventy years, from the 1900s to the 1970s. Both were massive revolts of the society against the state; the main objective of the first being to establish lawful government to make modernisation possible, and the second, to overthrow the absolute and arbitrary state, though this time mainly under the banner of religion and Marxism-Leninism and anti-Westernism. Neither of them succeeded in their lofty ideals for reasons that are explained and analysed within. The author also offers a detailed description of Iran’s short-term society, examining the political and intellectual lives of two of the most remarkable intellectuals-cum-politicians of the twentieth century. This book provides an overview of modern Persian literature, both poetry and prose, and discusses the works of three of the most remarkable Persian poets and writers of the period. It considers classical Persian literature through the great variety of its form and substance, and neo-classical literary developments in the nineteenth century, covering the whole history of Persian literature. This is crowned in the last chapter by the love poetry of one of the greatest Persian poets. Iran will be of interest to students and scholars of Iranian studies and Middle East Politics.



Handbuch Der Orientalistik

Author : Ulrich Marzolph

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 328 pages

File Size : 19,72 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 9789004121003

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This study surveys and documents the genre of illustrated lithographed books produced in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Iran. Constituting the legitimate successor to manuscript illustration, lithographic illustration in Iran served as a powerful medium of popular iconography.



Shahnameh

Author : Abolqasem Ferdowsi

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 1041 pages

File Size : 38,81 MB

Release : 2016-03-08

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 1101993235

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The definitive translation by Dick Davis of the great national epic of Iran—now newly revised and expanded to be the most complete English-language edition A Penguin Classic Dick Davis—“our pre-eminent translator from the Persian” (The Washington Post)—has revised and expanded his acclaimed translation of Ferdowsi’s masterpiece, adding more than 100 pages of newly translated text. Davis’s elegant combination of prose and verse allows the poetry of the Shahnameh to sing its own tales directly, interspersed sparingly with clearly marked explanations to ease along modern readers. Originally composed for the Samanid princes of Khorasan in the tenth century, the Shahnameh is among the greatest works of world literature. This prodigious narrative tells the story of pre-Islamic Persia, from the mythical creation of the world and the dawn of Persian civilization through the seventh-century Arab conquest. The stories of the Shahnameh are deeply embedded in Persian culture and beyond, as attested by their appearance in such works as The Kite Runner and the love poems of Rumi and Hafez. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.