"The Shahnameh created a formidable, unparalleled army – an army of words – that vanquished those who sought to fragment and destabilize Iran. No force could withstand this legion of countless ...

Questions about the origins and significance of that Persian literary masterpiece have long persisted. Consider, for instance: Is Shahnameh a legend or a reality? In his book, did Ferdowsi narrate the ...

Before the Islamic Revolution dimmed the Iranian literary imagination in 1979, and before an expanding Islam swept Iran into its Arab empire in the seventh century, there existed the rich and colorful ...

The Shahnameh is the great epic of ancient Persia, opening with the creation of the universe and closing with the Arab Muslim conquest of the worn-out empire in the 7th century. In its pages, the 11th ...

The Shahnameh, a 1,000-year old Persian epic, is a cultural mainstay in Iran. Iranian filmmaker Hamid Rahmanian recently made a contemporary, illustrated version. Each page is composed of thousands of ...

Filmmaker Hamid Rahmanian's forthcoming illustrated tome will bring new, vivid life to the epic tales of the ancient Persian kings. There has been a long tradition of depicting the stories of ...

Long before HBO's wildly popular Game of Thrones was created, Iranians turned to the national literary epic 'Shahnameh" (The Book of Kings) for intriguing tales of knights, nobility and mystical ...

Not too long ago, I decided to embark on a quest to a bygone era, in a far away place. Like many Persians before me, I grew up on the legends in the Shahnameh: Tales of the noble King Feraydun; Rostam ...