The great Persian epic recounting the mythical and heroic history of Iran's kings from creation to the Arab conquest.
Books that mention Shahnameh (7)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini: “Hassan’s favorite book by far was the Shahnamah, the tenth-century epic of”
Destiny Disrupted by Tamim Ansary: “the poet Firdausi, who was writing Shahnama (The Book of Kings), an epic history of the Persian nation from the beginning of time to the birth of Islam, all in rhyming couplets.”
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell: “Firdausi's Shah Nameh ('Epic of Kings') is a rehearsal in simple and stately narrative verse of the story of ancient Persia down to the Mohammedan conquest.”
Why Read the Classics by Italo Calvino: “Nezami essay: 'the celebratory epic account in The Book of the Kings by Firdusi'”
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A. S. Byatt: “She spent her time sewing huge pictures in silk-pictures of stories – the stories from the Shahnama, of Rüstem and the Shah Kaykavus, who tried to emulate the djinns and fly...”
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist by Orhan Pamuk: “the author of the great Persian epic Shahnameh, which I read over and over while writing the novel My Name Is Red”
The Red-Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk: “The name Sohrab didn't come from my monologue, but from Ferdowsi's thousand-year-old Shahnameh.”