Asadi Tusi
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Abu Nasr Ali ibn Ahmad Asadi Tusi was a Persian poet, linguist, and author. He was born at the beginning of the 11th century in Tus, Khorasan, and died in the late 1080s in Tabriz. Asadi Tusi is consi
Garshasp fighting cynocephali (sagsār), who are using tree branches as weapons. Miniature by Sadiqi Beg from the Garshaspnama. Iran, 1573. British Library
Bahram Gur Fights the Horned Wolf, folio from the Great Ilkhanid Shahnama
IRAN Miniatur by UNESCO 1957
The Court of Gayumars
Garshasp
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Garshāsp was, in Iranian mythical history, the last emperor of Pishdadian Iran according to the Shahnameh. He was a descendant of Zaav, ruling over the Persian Empire for about nine years. His name is
Asadi Tusi
…or concepts) also still exist. The Garshasp-nama (Persian: گرشاسپنامه) epic, with 9,000 couplets, is Asadi Tusi's major work. The hero of the poem is Garshasp (father of Nariman and great-grandfather of Šam), identified in the Shahnameh with the ancient Iranian hero Kərəsāspa- (Avestan language). In Avestan…
Garshasp slays the dragon. Miniature from the Jainesque Shahnama. India, c. 1425-1450. Rietberg Museum