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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Persian epic poet whose Book of Kings (1010) recounts the history of Persia from the arrival of the Persians to the Arab conquest.
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Much new material is included, along with old friends, such as the gorgeous, action-packed paintings from the 16th-century Persian Shahnama "Book of Kings" of Firdausi made for Shah Tahmasp and the seductively appointed 18th-century reception room from Damascus.
Museums Reveal Degas's Nudes and Islam's Splendor Karen Wilkin 2011
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The Shahnama, or "Book of Kings," began life as a 10th-century verse epic by the Persian poet Firdausi chronicling the mythological adventures of Persia's pre-Islamic rulers.
Clandestine Trade Melik Kaylan 2011
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I couldn't account for it, but for some reason I felt full of buck and appetite and great good humour, and I couldn't even remember feeling doubts or fears or anything - much - of course, I knew there was nothing like a good lively female for putting a chap in trim, as her man Firdausi had apparently pointed out.
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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That is an old wisdom, true - is it the poet Firdausi who says "The making of life in the shadow of death is the blissful oblivion ... '?"
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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This lays the ground work for Shakespeare (in English), and Firdausi (in Persian), and Garcia Lorca in Spanish, to make similar claims.
The origins of human religious behavior,Organized religion & magical thinking:Part IV 2009
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As we are talking about Firdausi the phone dies ominously.
Parvez Sharma: From Tehrangeles to Tehran: Noise and Static 2009
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On the phone, another friend tells me that seeing a green handkerchief in the hand of the Firdausi statue at the square named after him in Tehran, brought tears to her eyes, as much as the nightly chanting of the Allahoakbars (God is great!) from the rooftops.
Parvez Sharma: From Tehrangeles to Tehran: Noise and Static 2009
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Firdausi, of course (for those who dont know) wrote the Shahnama, 60,000 couplets of a history of Persia, that even I as a child in India read.
Parvez Sharma: From Tehrangeles to Tehran: Noise and Static 2009
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This tale, “full of the waters of the eye,” as Firdausi sings, is the massacre of the Barmecides; a story which has often been told and which cannot here be passed over in silence.
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Thus the prosodist would scan the Shahnámeh of Firdausi as
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