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Firdausi

, Firdusi
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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The seminar classes on historical studies of Iran and Kyrgyzstan, as well as literature reading of works of prominent poets of Iran and Kyrgyzstan are conducted in the Firdausi Center of Persian literature.
"Kilala ko iyan si Firdausi Abbas eh [I know Firdausi Abbas]
Hanafiah, who is both adviser and patron of Pertubuhan Amal Firdausi, said the non-governmental organisation offers a platform for the LGBT community to turn over a new leaf and helps those infected with HIV to receive treatment.
Sobia Rao takes up a few of the most iconic images from the Shahnameh of Firdausi and the Badshahnamah from the Mughal period.
Anticipating the millennium of Firdausi's Persian epic Shahnama in 2010, scholars of Persian literature and art history convened in January 2009 in Leiden, and this volume contains papers from that gathering and a number of additional papers exploring the reception of the Shahnama.
A library at LCWU, was set up with the support of Iran, has a unique collection of research work over Iqbal and Firdausi.
He also notes Browning's reading of Goethe's Westdstlicher Divan (1819) and the verse translation The Epic of Kings, Stories Retold from Firdausi (1883) by Helen Zimmern, whom Browning knew (p.
[17.] Cheng, M.-Y., Firdausi, P.M., and Prayogo, D., High-performance Concrete Compressive Strength Prediction using Genetic Weighted Pyramid Operation Tree (GWPOT), Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 29, 2014, pp.
Yunus Uksfurdi (Oxford Jones), produced not only a Shakaristan (a chest of sugar), as the grammar was titled in Persian, but a gulistan (bower of roses), replete with the beauties of "the Persian Anacreon" Hafiz, a ruba'i (quatrain) and a half by Omar Khayyam, and the love-songs of Firdausi: "If I could sleep one night on thy bosom, I should seem to touch the sky with my exalted head." A book proffering Oriental breasts and chests of rupees was likely to succeed.
Evening and long nights of winter are dedicated to Shahname (Book of the Kings) by Firdausi. Shahname is the greatest Persian work of poetry and is compared to Homer's Odyssey.
Several research have found that some universities in Malaysia were losing students because of service quality and a lack of competent academics ( Firdausi, 2006; Latif et al.
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