Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi or 940–between 1019 and 1026) was a Persian poet and the author of Shahnameh. He was born into a family of Iranian landowners in the Khorasan region of the Samanid Empire. He had a son, who died at the age of 37, and was mourned by the poet in an elegy which he inserted into the Shah nameh.
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Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi or 940–between 1019 and 1026) was a Persian poet and the author of Shahnameh. He is celebrated as one of the most influential figure in Persian literature. Except for his kunya and his laqab, nothing is known with any certainty about his full name. He was born into a family of Iranian landowners in the Khorasan region of the Samanid Empire. He had a son, who died at the age of 37, and was mourned by the poet in an elegy which he inserted into the Shah nameh. There is no evidence that he knew either Arabic or Pahlavi. He wrote some early poems which have not survived, intending it as a continuation of the work of his fellow poet Daqiqi, who had been assassinated by his slave He-Razzāqi. He used the generous prose of the Persian poet Shahhnameh as a source for his later works. He died in 1026, and is buried in the city of Tus, in the present-day Razavi Khora’s Province of northeastern Iran.
His poetry is considered to be the most important in the history of Persian literature and is considered a masterpiece of the Islamic world. His work is also the national epic of Greater Iran, and has been translated into English, Russian, Chinese, and other languages. His name is given in Persian sources as Firdawsi, based on the standardized transliteration method of the German Oriental Society. In English works, he is referred to by different spellings of his name, including Firdusi, Firdosi and Firdausi, etc. He belonged to the class of dehqans, landowning Iranian aristocrats who had flourished under the Sassanid dynasty and whose power, though diminished, had survived into the Islamic era which followed the Islamic conquests of the 7th century. The Samanids used the New Persian language, which had been used to bring Islam to the Eastern regions.
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