Free The Shah Namah: The Epic Of Kings (with Active TOC) Ebooks To Download
The Shahnameh or The Epic of Kings is one of the definite classics of the world. It tells hero tales of ancient Persia. The contents and the poet's style in describing the events takes the reader back to the ancient times and makes he/she sense and feel the events. Ferdowsi worked for thirty years to finish this masterpiece. An important feature of this work is that during the period that Arabic language was known as the main language of science and literature, Ferdowsi used only Persian in his masterpiece. As Ferdowsi himself says "Persian language is revived by this work". This is the translation of The Epic of Shahnameh Ferdowsi by Helen Zimmern. Table of Contents: THE SHAHS OF OLDFERIDOUNZALZAL AND RUDABEHRUSTEMTHE MARCH INTO MAZINDERANKAI KAOUS COMMITTETH MORE FOLLIESRUSTEM AND SOHRABSAIAWUSHTHE RETURN OF KAI KHOSRAUFIROUDTHE VENGEANCE OF KAI KHOSRAUBYZUN AND MANIJEHTHE DEFEAT OF AFRASIYABTHE PASSING OF KAI KHOSRAUISFENDIYARRUSTEM AND ISFENDIYARTHE DEATH OF RUSTEMAbout the Publisher: Orange Sky Project is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, Esoteric and Mythology in Kindle format. www.mehmetgok.com/orangeskyOrange Sky Project is about sharing information in Kindle format, not about making money. All books are priced at lowest prices. About the Author: "Hakim Abol-Qasem Ferdowsi Tusi, more commonly transliterated as Ferdowsi, (935-1020) was a highly revered Persian poet. He was the author of the Shahnameh, the national epic of Persia (Iran).Ferdowsi was born in the Iranian province of Razavi Khorasan, in a village near Tus, in 935. His father was a wealthy land owner. Ferdowsi was a pious Muslim.His great epic, the Shahnameh ("The Epic of Kings"), to which he devoted more than 35 years, was originally composed for presentation to the Samanid princes of Khorasan, who were the chief instigators of the revival of Iranian cultural traditions after the Arab conquest of the seventh century.When he was just 23-years old, he found a "Shahnameh" written by Abu-Mansour Almoammari; it was not, however, in poetic form. It consisted of older versions ordered by Abu-Mansour ibn Abdol-razzagh. The discovery would be a fateful moment in the life of the poet. Ferdowsi started his composition of the Shahnameh in the Samanid era in 977. During Ferdowsi's lifetime the Samanid dynasty was conquered by the Ghaznavid Empire.After 30 years of hard work, he finished the book and two or three years after that, Ferdowsi went to Ghazni, the Ghaznavid capital, to present it to the king. There are various stories in medieval texts describing the lack of interest shown by the new king, Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni, in Ferdowsi and his lifework. According to historians, Mahmud had promised Ferdowsi a dinar for every distich written in the Shahnameh (60,000 dinars), but later retracted and presented him with dirhams (20,000 dirhams), which were at that time much less valuable than dinars (every 100 dirhams worth 1 dinar). Some think it was the jealousy of other poets working at the king's court that led to this treachery; the incident encouraged Ferdowsi's enemies in the court. Ferdowsi rejected the money and, by some accounts, he gave it to a poor man who sold wine. Wandering for a time in Sistan and Mazandaran, he eventually returned to Tus, heartbroken and enraged.He had left behind a poem for the King, stuck to the wall of the room he had worked in for all those years. It was a long and angry poem, more like a curse, and ended with the words:"Heaven's vengeance will not forget. Shrink tyrant from my words of fire, and tremble at..." (Quote from wikipedia.org)
File Size: 571 KB
Print Length: 170 pages
Publisher: Orange Sky Project; 1 edition (May 7, 2011)
Publication Date: May 7, 2011
Sold by: Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00502B80O
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
X-Ray: Not Enabled
Word Wise: Enabled
Lending: Not Enabled
Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #287,735 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store) #2 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Religion & Spirituality > Islam > Music #2 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Arts & Photography > Music > Musical Genres > Religious & Sacred Music > Muslim #3 in Books > Arts & Photography > Music > Musical Genres > Religious & Sacred Music > Muslim
"After terrible suffering and great travails, King Jamshid climbed up to Zabulistan."This fairy tale line comes from an 11th-century cycle of epic poetry that is as vital to Persian civilization as Homer's poetry is to Greece. What startled me when I first read it was the place name, repeated again and again: not some great city in the Iranian heartlands like Babylon, but Zabulistan - the tract of desolate frontier that stretches north and east from Kandahar.The "Shahnameh" cycle celebrates a dynasty of mythic heroes, whose fiefdom is Zabulistan and whose exploits glorified the kingdom of Iran and protected it from its northern enemies. But the poetry is studded with examples of the champions' testy independence, even when performing great feats in the service of their kings. In one of the most celebrated episodes, Rustam, the chief hero, kills the crown prince in battle rather than be carried to court in fetters.Through such symbolism, the poems reflect the legendary - and to a large degree real - unconquerability of the region that is now southern and eastern Afghanistan.Some 500 years before the "Shanameh" was written, the Muslim conquests transformed the eastern Mediterranean region - and much of the world - forever after. The Arab tribesmen who burst forth from their desert on camels, armed with little more than the egalitarian precepts of their new religion, swept away two empires, almost toppled a third, and founded a polity that reached from Spain to the borders of India. But they could not reduce Zabulistan. Chronicles from the period detail fierce fighting on the frontier between the Muslim ghazis and the pagan subjects of Zabulistan.
The Shah Namah: The Epic of Kings (with Active TOC) The Life of God in the Soul of Man (Best Navigation, Active TOC) Active Server Pages How-To: The Definitive Active Server Pages Problem-Solver A Director's Guide to Stanislavsky's Active Analysis: Including the Formative Essay on Active Analysis by Maria Knebel Plan to Not Pay Taxes: Tax Free Active Investing Strategies (The Active Investor Library Book 1) Plan to Not Pay Taxes: Tax Free Active Investing Strategies (The Active Investor Library) (Volume 1) The Wisdom of Ahmad Shah: An Afghan Legend A Chronicle of the Reign of Shah 'Abbas All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror Tickety Toc: Let's Tell Time!: A Telling Time Book Tickety Toc: Pirate Time Tickety Toc: Welcome to Tickety Town Steps to Christ (with linked TOC) Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Old Republic Volume 1 (Epic Collection: Star Wars Legends) Star Wars Epic Collection: Rise of the Sith Vol. 1 (Epic Collection: Star Wars) Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The New Republic Volume 1 (Epic Collection: Star Wars) Global Supply Chains: Evaluating Regions on an EPIC Framework - Economy, Politics, Infrastructure, and Competence: "EPIC" Structure - Economy, Politics, Infrastructure, and Competence Kings of the Jungle: An Illustrated Reference to "Tarzan" on Screen and Television A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2 The Way of Kings: Book One of The Stormlight Archive
