Siten

Ferdowsi - World Famous Iranian Poet - English
URL: http://www.farsinet.com/mashhad/ferdowsi.html

Ferdowsi was born in Khorasan in a village near Toos, in 940. His great epic the Shahnameh, to which he devoted most of his adult life, was originally composed for the Samanid princes of Khorasan, who were the chief instigators of the revival of Persian cultural traditions after the Arab conquest of the seventh century.

[ eng ]