Top: Simurgh, in “The Shahnameh,” takes Zal back to its nest. Middle: Mowgli and Baloo in the 1895 edition of “The Two Jungle Books.” Illustration by John Lockwood Kipling.

The “Shahnameh,” or Book of Kings, ... 2021, handles more than 100 different puppets and props and plays several characters, including that mythological bird, Simurgh, ...

Ferdowsi's 10th-century text Shahnameh (The Book of Kings), which at 60,000 verses weighs in as the longest epic poems ever written, is a foundation for this mythology, comparable to The Odyssey ...

The Shahnameh begins with the creation of the world as outlined in Persian mythology and follows the lineage of Iranian kings, heroes, and legends throughout history. Ferdowsi intertwines tales of ...

He presented his thesis in 1969 on “Shahnameh Lexicography” and his thesis adviser was Mohammad Moin, the Iranian scholar who is best known for his Persian dictionary. Ali Ravaqi, who is the permanent ...