ABSTRACT

This is Volume IV of a collection of thirteen on Persia. Originally published in 1905, this text looks at the first part of the SHÁHNÁMA OF FIRDAUSÍ. To the vast majority of English readers the Sháhnáma seems hardly to be known even by name even though it is a great Persian Epic.

part 1|95 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|20 pages

Land and People

chapter 2|53 pages

Poet and Poem

chapter 3|20 pages

Text and Translation

part 2|18 pages

The Sháhnáma

chapter 4|16 pages

The Prelude

part 3|273 pages

The Beginning Of The History I The PishdáDian Dynasty