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by
ELIZABETH D. RENNINGER
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Firdusi was a Persian poet, author of the Shah Namah [the book of kings], the great Persian epic. His original name was Abul Kasim Mansur; he is thought to have been born of a yeoman family of Khorasan. He received a thorough education in Muslim learning and in the Persian language and antiquities....