Firdausi

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Fir·dau·si

 (fîr-dou′sē) also Fir·du·si (fər-do͞o′sē) or Fer·dow·si (fĕr-dou′sē) Pen name of Abu-l-Qasim Mansur. 940?-1020?
Persian epic poet whose Book of Kings (1010) recounts the history of Persia from the arrival of the Persians to the Arab conquest.
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Firdausi

(fɪəˈdaʊsɪ) or

Firdusi

n
(Biography) pen name of Abul Qasim Mansur ?935–1020 ad, Persian epic poet; author of Shah Nama (The Book of Kings), a chronicle of the legends and history of Persia
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Fir•dau•si

or Fir•dou•si

(fərˈdaʊ si)

also Fir•du•si

(-ˈdu-)

n.
(Abul Qasim Mansu or Hasan), 932–1020, Persian poet.
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This was a poetic celebration from around 1810 of the reign of Fath 'Ali Shah and a deliberate emulation of the great Iranian national epic of the Shahnama (The Book of Kings), composed by the poet Firdausi in 1010, and regularly copied and illustrated on commission from kings from the early 14th century onwards (Fig.
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