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Tus. Ferdowsi tomb Khorasan Ferdowsi, born near Meshhad in A.D.940, was 40 years old when he began to compose the Shahnameh, and it took him about twenty years to complete the 60,000 couplets of this epic which relates the history of Iran to the end of the Sassanian period. Ferdowsi drew heavily on ancient Persian mythology. He is said to have been promised a gold coin for every couplet by the reigning court. However, when he completed the monumental work in A.D. 999, the reigning monarch, Sultan Mahmud Ghaznavi, was staggered by its size and instead offered him a silver coin for each couplet. Ferdowsi turned down the offer and dejected returned to his home where he composed a sharp satire against the sultan. Although he died penniless, his Shahnameh warmed the hearts of Iranians for ever the most famous characters in the Shahnameh are Rostam and his son, Sohrab, whose fight, culminating in the death of Sohrab at Rostam's hand (he was not aware of the true identity of his son), is one of the most moving tragedies in classical Literature. Ferdowsi has rightly been hailed as one of the greatest poets known in the world . Sultan Mahmud reputed to have four hundred poets attached to his court. These included many who were great in their own right - Onsori, Farrokhi, Manuchehri, and Asadi, to mention some. |
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