Category: Middle-East

The Shahnameh (Persian: شاهنامه, romanized: Šāhnāme, lit. ‘The Book of Kings’, pronounced [ʃɒːhnɒːˈme]), also transliterated Shahnama,[a] is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran.