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The Shahnameh ( Persian: شاهنامه, romanized : Šāhnāme, lit. 'The Book of Kings', modern Iranian Persian pronunciation [ʃɒːh.nɒː.ˈme] ), [ a] also transliterated Shahnama, [ b] is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran.
The Persian Encyclopedia ( Persian: دایرةالمعارف فارسی; Romanized as Dāyerat-ol-ma'āref-e Fārsi) is one of the most comprehensive and authoritative Encyclopedias written in Persian. It is a two-volume encyclopedia published as three physical volumes. The encyclopedia was based, in part, on the 1953, 1960, and 1968 editions ...
Ibn Sina ( Persian: ابن سینا, romanized : Ibn Sīnā; c. 980 – 22 June 1037 CE), commonly known in the West as Avicenna ( / ˌævɪˈsɛnə, ˌɑːvɪ -/ ), was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world, [ 4][ 5] flourishing during the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers. [ 6]
The Dehkhoda Dictionary or Dehkhoda Lexicon ( Persian: لغتنامهٔ دهخدا or واژهنامه) is the largest comprehensive Persian encyclopedic dictionary ever published, comprising 200 volumes. It is published by the Tehran University Press (UTP) under the supervision of the Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute. It was first published ...
A scene from the Shahnameh describing the valour of Rustam. Persian literature[ a] comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures. [ 1][ 2][ 3] It spans over two-and-a-half millennia.
e. Mithra ( Avestan: 𐬨𐬌𐬚𐬭𐬀 Miθra, Old Persian: 𐎷𐎰𐎼 Miθra) is an ancient Iranian deity of covenants, light, oaths, justice, the Sun, [ 1] contracts, and friendship. [ 2] In addition to being the divinity of contracts, Mithra is also a judicial figure, an all-seeing protector of Truth ( Asha ), and the guardian of cattle ...
Statue in Tehran Statue of Ferdowsi in Tus by Abolhassan Sadighi. Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi (Persian: ابوالقاسم فردوسی توسی; 940 – 1019/1025), [2] also Firdawsi or Ferdowsi (فردوسی), [3] was a Persian [4] [5] poet and the author of Shahnameh ("Book of Kings"), which is one of the world's longest epic poems created by a single poet, and the greatest epic of Persian ...
Kar-Namag i Ardashir i Pabagan. The Kār-Nāmag ī Ardašīr ī Pāpagān ( Book of the Deeds of Ardeshir, Son of Papag) (New Persian: کارنامهٔ اردشیر بابکان ), is a short Middle Persian prose tale written in the Sassanid period (226-651). [ 1] The story narrates the story of Ardashir I, the founder of the Sassanid dynasty.