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The Shah-nameh **About the Creator **

Ferdowsi was born in 935 in Northeastern Iran. When he was a child, Ferdowsi dreamt of having enough money to build a bridge that would stand up to floods to be able to play beside the river. When he became a renowned poet, the King wanted him to write the history of Persia and would pay him 1000 gold pieces for each 1000 couplets (lines of poetry that would rhyme) written. His work spends over thirty years, with 60,000 couplets known today as the Shahnameh; however, he was only given 60,000 silver pieces rather than gold. In his frustration, Ferdows left the palace and went back home. When the King read his epic poem, he disliked it due to its length and mean~spiritedness and ordered Ferdowsi to be found and stomped by elephants. When Ferdowsi begged for forgiveness, however, the King accepted his request and said he never wanted to see or hear from Ferdowsi again. In the end, the King sent a camel train to Ferdowsi’s home town with 60,000 gold pieces along with cloth of silk, brocade, velvet, perfumes and spices; unfortunately, Ferdowsi died before the King sent these gifts to Tus.

__**About the Shahnameh **__
 * Starts in the beging of the world and how they discovered fire, cooking, law.
 * It is not in chronological order.
 * Some charictors live for hundreds of years, most have normal life spans.
 * This work was an effort to preserve the memory of persias "golden" days.

__**The Books Message **__
 * To learn from the past in order to inprove the present
 * Ferdowsi stresses his belief that "Since the world is transient, and since everyone is merely a passerby, one is wise to avoid cruelty, lying, avarice, and other evils; instead one should strive for justice, honor, truth, order, and other virtues."

__**Rostam and Sohrab **__

The story is about a boy named Sohrab and his father Named Rostam, and it is from the Shah-nameh. Rostam was a Persian hero and a favorite of the king. When he went to the city of Samangan looking for his lost horse, the king "hosted" him. During this time he met the princess Tahmina, who he quickly married. He then left the kingdom and never came back, during this time she gave birth to their son Sohrab. Rostam and Sohrab never met until a new war started between Iran and Turan many years later. Sohrab was known as the best fighter in the turan army, and was sent to fight the great persian hero. When Sohrab went and told the enemy he would not fight Rostam (because he knew it was his father), Rostam fought him anyway because he did not want to ruin his reputation, not knowing who he was. When Tahmina came running out to the feild, he found out that Sohrab was his son, The boy was bleeding out in his arms. He had stabbed his son in the heart.



__**About the art of the Shahnameh **__


 * The oldest manuscripts of the Shahnameh have no illustrations
 * The earliest illustrated manuscripts were by Mongols that occupied Iran for almost a century.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 20pt;">Mongol Ilkhan Khans, and others later in history, used to produce the illustrations of the Shahnameh manuscript.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 20pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">These manuscripts are known by the people who sponsored them including:
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 20pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">Great Mongol or Georges Demotte
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 20pt;">Prince Bayasanghor
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 20pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">Shah Tahmasp or Arthur Houghton
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 20pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">Common illustrated manuscripts were miniaturized watercolor paintings.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 20pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">Art collectors raised prices of the manuscripts because of how good the illustrations were and had no real interest in the text.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 20pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">Collectors typically cut out the illustrations and throwing away the text.
 * [[image:http://heritageinstitute.com/zoroastrianism/images/shahnameh/mongol.jpg width="287" height="409" caption="Mongol manuscript folio 1330s Tabriz"]] ||


 * [[image:http://heritageinstitute.com/zoroastrianism/images/shahnameh/baysonqor.jpg width="397" height="549" caption="Bayasanghori (Baysonqori) manuscript folio c 1430 CE Tabriz"]] ||


 * || [[image:http://heritageinstitute.com/zoroastrianism/images/shahnameh/houghton1.jpg width="450" height="655" caption="Tahmaspi or Houghton manuscript folio 308 v 1"]] ||

__<span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 20pt;">Compared with art in Afghanistan __








 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 20pt;">Simple and lavish
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 20pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Mainly used primary colors (Red, Yellow and Blue)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 20pt;">Certain stories and characters were used in many different types of Art in Afghanistan including ceramics, textiles, and tile panels.

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