The Shahnameh , also transliterated as Shahnama (The Book of Kings), 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.
Consisting of some 50,000 distichs or couplets (2-line verses), the Shahnameh is the world's longest epic poem written by a single poet.
It tells mainly the mythical and to some extent the historical past of the Persian Empire from the creation of the world unt.
The epic of kings- hero tales of ancient persia (Wisehouse Classics - the authoritative edition)/abuʾl-qasim ferdowsi tusi
