Hakim Abu’l-Qasem Ferdowsi (940–1025) was born in the family of wealthy land owners (the class known as dehqan) in Tus, in northeast Iran’s province of Khorasan. Ferdowsi is the author of the Shahnameh (The Persian Book of Kings), one of the greatest works of world literature and the national epic of Iran. Ferdowsi mixed myth and…
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