Ferdowsi
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...