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Shahnama

Shahnama

The Shahnama (Book of Kings) is an epic poem that was composed by Firdausi in 1010 CE and comprising around sixty thousand couplets.Featuring an adventurer-hero protagonist, it was developed as a painted manuscript by several rulers, most notable of which is the Shahnama manuscript of Shah Tahmasp (r. 1524–76), the Safavid ruler.

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