Ferdowsi Shahnameh: A Genius of Persian literature

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the Persian book of kings or Shahnameh a narrative in verse, the longest poem by a single author, about 50,000 couplets or lines. Written 1000 years ago, it’s the most important work of Persian language and literature.In this video I will tell you ten things I love about Shahnameh.
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@juenige 9 ай бұрын

I wish I could speak Persian, just to understand the lovely melody of Shahnameh.

@sayafgaming8678 3 жыл бұрын

Proud to be Persian❤️❤️

@Fiction_Beast 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@LuisMSilva-yb6dv 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the video!

@Fiction_Beast 3 жыл бұрын

You’re very welcome!

@nadiasultan5085 3 жыл бұрын

one of the best things on you tube.thank you from Iraq.

@Fiction_Beast 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Please suggest a book (fiction) from Iraq if possible 😊

@nadiasultan5085 3 жыл бұрын

So much good Iraqi fiction,but the most recent that comes to mind is "Frankestein in Baghdad" by Ahmed Saadawi.

@Fiction_Beast 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I’ll check it out.

@sanjab22 10 ай бұрын

اهلا بك انا من العراق 😊❤

@Fiction_Beast 3 жыл бұрын

What do you think? Do you agree with me? I would love to hear from you!

@absorbnatureexploringkashm2304 3 жыл бұрын

Yes from Indian Kashmir

@WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs Жыл бұрын

Fun fact: Sohrab in Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner was named after the son of Rostam. Amir and Sohrab read The Shahnameh in Farsi one of the languages of Afghanistan

@user-zq9so6pt9s 2 ай бұрын

Iran not Afghanistan 😊

@WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs 2 ай бұрын

@@user-zq9so6pt9s also Afghanistan

@Romaneshab2460 Жыл бұрын

Ferdosi is Iranian since he has be born in Tus of Iran and all his words in this book exactly is in Persian such as language of Iranian people of ancient and modern Iran. ❤ ❤

@alicebutler112 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, this really helped me with my University essay !!

@Fiction_Beast 3 жыл бұрын

Great!

@Shadow-ch6cj 7 ай бұрын

Wait a minute is you essay about my country history?

@dutchdanderdinde6450 3 жыл бұрын

As an iranian I have to say Great video

@Fiction_Beast 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! That's wonderful to hear!

@NanditaMallickmarak 10 күн бұрын

What a stylish presentation!❤

@yasinkooshki5828 Жыл бұрын

Thank you to make this video🖤

@GoogleRescueGooglerescue Ай бұрын

Great video! How could you absorb so much of Shahnameh as it is not the only book you are covering! Shahnameh is full of surprises. Bijan & Manijeh is a nice love story with some distinctive features. It has an introduction where Ferdowsi explains that in a dark night when he felt sad, his partner (spouse?) narrated this story to him and asked him to include it in Shahnameh.

@leonardoangelo5672 Жыл бұрын

Excellent your work

@aidahabdghani5098 Жыл бұрын

Thank you.This video is very interesting about Shahnameh.

@Fiction_Beast Жыл бұрын

So nice of you

@pouyapetg2725 Жыл бұрын

Nicely done. Very good video. Wouldn't be good if there was a movie like lord of the rings based on Shahnama?

@raisa_cherry33 3 жыл бұрын

I absolutely agree on no 8 👏❤

@moaf1727 3 жыл бұрын

thanks for video

@Fiction_Beast 3 жыл бұрын

thanks for watching.

@DC-zi6se 8 ай бұрын

There's such a beautiful congruence in the literary history of the world. This aspect of epic poetry can be seen in the ancient Indian epics, Homeric works as well as other local European pockets as well. Shows the commonality of mankind.🙂

@sanjab22 10 ай бұрын

جميل حقا 😊❤ أتمنى ان تعمل عن ملحمة جلجامش ❤

@Rostam.M 10 ай бұрын

Good Job 🤝🏼🤝🏼

@movahed2473 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you🌸, shahnameh Bible we Iranians, which is the first day of school to adulthood types of learning it to teach US, shahnameh reading and its interpretation of the work lovely in Iran, school learning different features shahnameh in Iran very welcome, and is lovely🙂📚

@Fiction_Beast 3 жыл бұрын

You’re very welcome! Thank you for watching.

@movahed2473 3 жыл бұрын

@@Fiction_Beast This section wrong I wrote, excuse me🤦🏻‍♀️😕 In this part, I said that ... We Iranians love learning different features of Shahnameh such as interpreting and reading it, and everywhere in Iran they love and do it very much, so that children know it in doing different stories.

@Fiction_Beast 3 жыл бұрын

I understood your point so don’t worry. Still I thank you for explaining it. Yes I think for kids some words might be difficult. I think it’s also taught and read in Tajikistan and Afghanistan as far as I know. Appreciate your comment.

@movahed2473 3 жыл бұрын

@@Fiction_Beast Thank you, Yes in Iran in the age eight in Persian we lyrics shahnameh golestan, and M. balkhi and masnavi there. Yes, it is the first to US was hard but because of interest in this work is currently a lot of people can shahnameh interpretation do.😄 Yes, at the two countries very common especially Afghanistan, but good government people interested in shahnameh and masnavi suppressed and work permit wide and the world for shahnameh not.😕😞

@arefrahmanipoor7073 2 жыл бұрын

Actually Rostam says his mace is his jewel rather than his sword being his seal! Makes more sense doesn't it?😁 But joking aside, Your analysis on the subject is quite accurate. You seem to know a great deal about persian culture; congratulations! Even most persians these days don't Know about the Importance and impact of Shahnameh on Persian culture; Most of them haven't even read it once! Quite a tragedy😔

@Fiction_Beast 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I am glad you enjoyed it. If you like, I did make a second video on Ferdowsi. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mdt1ermEzt_Gdnk.html

@arefrahmanipoor7073 2 жыл бұрын

@@Fiction_Beast your'e welcome. I watched all of em😁 and i plan to watch youre entire channel for days to come❤️

@Fiction_Beast 2 жыл бұрын

@@arefrahmanipoor7073 Awesome!

@easahaseeb 2 жыл бұрын

Do a video about Rumi (Mawlana Jalaludin Balkhi) His books: (Masnavi Manawi) - (Divan Shams) Good contents u got brotha ! 🥂

@Fiction_Beast 2 жыл бұрын

I'll check it out. Thanks

@mahboobzegham806 4 ай бұрын

To the creater of this video : Thanks a lot brother for this informative video. To WHOever who is FIGHTING over which country did Ferdowsi belong to : He is from central region of Asia. He was born in Tus during ruling of Samanid Suni Muslim Empire capital city Samarkand and Bukhara located in todays Uzbekistan and died in Tus region during which was being ruled by Ghaznavid Suni Muslim Empire which its Capital was Ghazni located in todays Afghanistan Ghazni province. So Neither the word Iran existed back then nor Afghanistan , at least not officially. The region Khorasan has been ruled by those who today are known as Afghans, Greeks, Iranians, Mongols, Turks and a lot more . So its complicated enough to reference Geography and where he was Born and Died or Belong to Should not be of concern unless you have INFORIORITY COMPLEX. I am an Afghan and I speak both Persian, which is my mother tongue, and Pashto and nobody can rob my ancestry from me. Abul-Qasem Ferdowsi Tusi is a ( Farsi, Dari, Tajiki ) speaking Poet and he did not waste 30 Years of his Life collecting Ancient Tales so people could fight over it like kids but rather to read it and pass it to our children. If you can not do this you have the right to stay Silent or visit a Psychiatrist ! reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdowsi Psychiatrist in Iran: Hamid Yousefi or someone else. Psychiatrist in Afghanistan: Dr.Jamshid Rasa or someone else. Psychiatrist in Canada and USA : Dr.Jordan Peterson or someone else.

@basemalhaydari9780 2 жыл бұрын

It was great

@Fiction_Beast 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@ali0698h 4 ай бұрын

Ferdowsi saved the Persian language. This book was written at a time when, after the Arab attack on the Sasanian Empire, Iranians were not allowed to speak Persian for 200 years, and if they spoke, the Arab-speaking rulers would kick them out. Iranians spoke very little Persian, and that's why the Arabs called them Ajam at that time.

@miladeskandari7 4 ай бұрын

It's a nice myth but you can't revive a language by a book. How many people do you think could read back then? People were still speaking Persian in private, Ferdowsi just took credit for it

@dionysus1394 4 ай бұрын

@@miladeskandari7he saved the language in a way that is not similar to what the person above is trying to perpetuate, but in a way still pivotal to Persian history. The Middle Persian, or Pahlavi language as it was spoken in the Sasanian Empire before it received an influx of Arabic loanwords after the Muslims conquests was preserved thanks to Ferdowsi.

@dionysus1394 4 ай бұрын

@@miladeskandari7I regret to inform you though that Hebrew is an example of a language brought back from a book. It had died off sometime after the Roman-Jewish wars as a spoken language but during the Zionist movement of the 19th century had become modernized in incredibly adopted by Jewish individuals.

@Nonchalant1996 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, do you know where I can find a Persian version of this? I can only find English translations

@Fiction_Beast 2 жыл бұрын

i think you can dowload here. i dont know where you can buy unless you know someone inside iran to send it yo you. I hope it helps. pdftarikhema.com/PDF/شاهنامه-فردوسی/

@arefrahmanipoor7073 2 жыл бұрын

drive.google.com/file/d/1b9ryBEczzl5WMk5z0clioqz-P_Jnxt4r/view?usp=sharing

@arefrahmanipoor7073 2 жыл бұрын

i've uploaded it here for you :)

@raisa_cherry33 3 жыл бұрын

Where are you from brother?

@Always_Unlucky Ай бұрын

خیلی ممنون من یک ایرانی هستم

@mehernoshsassanishroff4745 Ай бұрын

Beautiful as a Sassani I feel sad

@Hassan_MM. Жыл бұрын

💕✔️

@PravdaSeed 2 ай бұрын

⭐💯💓💯⭐

@rafiqmuhamad7711 9 ай бұрын

I saw food here 😋😋❤️

@neatapeace4266 2 жыл бұрын

Have you read Shahnameh in Persian language? Is there a Dari version?

@Fiction_Beast 2 жыл бұрын

Yes i did read some of it in Persian but my knowledge is mostly based on the English version translated by Dick Davis. People say the language of Shahnameh is in fact closer to modern-day Dari spoken in Afghanistan than Farsi spoken in Iran. The reason is that Ferdowsi lived in easten part of Iran under the rule of Samanid in Bukhara (today Uzebkistan) and later Ghaznavid (modern day Afghanistan). The closer you were to Baghdad the more mixed the language was with Arabic.

@neatapeace4266 2 жыл бұрын

@@Fiction_Beast Thanks for your answer. I have listened to some audio version of Shahnameh on KZfaq. I have not noticed any Dari. I thought you might have read it in Dari. Years ago I used to do online translation for patients. 90% of the patients who wanted a Farsi interpreter were from Afghanistan and needed a Dari interpreter. Both languages are beautiful and we can mostly understand each other but they are not the same.

@Fiction_Beast 2 жыл бұрын

@@neatapeace4266 Tajik is another Persian language written in Cyrillic alpahbet. Shahnameh is like 90% understood by Persian speakers today, which is amazing.

@neatapeace4266 2 жыл бұрын

@@Fiction_Beast One should consider that these countries once belonged to Persian Empire, that’s quite normal that they still understand each other. Today 43 years after revulsion even Iranians who live abroad don’t speak the same way compared to the ones living in Iran. This I have noticed every time I’ve been there. Migration, separation, society needs, governmentś influence, media, social changes etc all influence language.

@Hermesborugerdian 2 жыл бұрын

@@neatapeace4266 Yea ofcourse Samanid Persia and Ghaznavid Persia included the modern Iran too but what he’s trying to say is that Ferdowsi was a Khorasani which is an Iranian land that includes modern day Afghanistan

@childofgod5140 Жыл бұрын

♥️🇮🇷🔥

@AAMIRTIARA 6 ай бұрын

King Ferdowsi Wrote Shahnameh to keep Parsi and our language alive from those savage Arabs who brutally invaded Iran and killed everybody by force to change their religion from Zartosht which it was first religion who invite everybody to pray unique God, but its different from other religion from many ways) to islam. He was a KING for Persian because he kept our ceremonies or Traditional events who got forgotten alive until end of this world like : Mehregan , Sepandar mazgan( Love Day, So Persian Respect LOVE 5000BCE (Valentine Day :) copied from Persia etc...) Because he saw the Islam killing our Parsi tradition and direct us to Arab, but he saw that, and he doesn't have power to fight with muslims, so spend time to keep our Language and our Tradition Alive and strong. %100 of those countries who got conquered by MUSLIMs changed their language and their life same like Arabs, but ONLY PERSIAN kept their Language and their Tradition alive to tell those ARABs : PERSIA has long long story and civilization came from Persia. Cyrus The Great or KING of THE KING was the first king in entire world who put Crown on his head and Tiara on his wife's head. All of Persian philosophers were against of ISLAM and remained SUFI or ZARTOSHTI like : Mulana Rumi , Omar Khayyam ; Nezami Ganjavi , Ferdowsi , Hakim Farabi , Hakim Rudaki and etc... Shahname Story about Kaveh Ahangar and Zahakeh Mar Bedosh is fighting between Parsi and Arab, Parsi was Kaveh Hanagar and Zahak was ARAB and was eating our young people brains, so he was trying to say this Arabs in your country brain wash your Kidds and young people to Arab religion and Arab tradition which is nothing compare to Persian Heritage and Persian Tradition. Kaveh was real Parsi who came to destroy Islam from our Persia. We had the first religion and not deserve to have a last religion. He dreamed and imagined one day KAVEH going to come and Kik those muslims and islam away from Persia...

@frashokereti9096 2 жыл бұрын

#1 " ... so indirectly it's critical of kingship ..." Bro, where did you pull that up from? Ferdowsi praises the just kings and criticizes the evil ones.

@Fiction_Beast 2 жыл бұрын

I think i said that in the video.

@UndisputedGH05T 2 жыл бұрын

@@Fiction_Beast the problem is that by talking of the wisdom of the crowds you are shoehorning your own belief into the work. Ferdoesi repeatedly praises nobility and hence kingship. That’s ideological in nature.

@deadpool-jq7sg 2 жыл бұрын

he is from afghanistan bro he is not from iran

@Fiction_Beast 2 жыл бұрын

The name Afghanistan didnt exist at the time of Ferdowsi. I believe the region was called Khorasan. Let's enjoy his writing and not dwell on his nationality.

@Hermesborugerdian 2 жыл бұрын

I mean just listen to Ferdowsi himself

@Persiastan Жыл бұрын

No such thing as Afghanistan existed back then. Ferdowsi was born in the city of Tus in Iran. He was an Iranian and his book is about Iran. Nothing Afghan here.

@aminkabuli9415 Жыл бұрын

@@Persiastan there are other sources that claim ... Ferdowsi was originally from Ghazni of today Afghanistan. . Because of the type of Persian dialect in which it was written in shows that he was from Ghazni region.

@WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs Жыл бұрын

Makes little difference since Afghanis speak Farsi