Ferdowsi
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Abu al-Qasim Mansur bin Hasan Tosi, better known by his pen name Ferdowsi, was a Persian poet who is notable for being the author of the Shahnameh, which is one of the world's longest epic poems creat
Posthumous miniature of Ferdowsi, (c. 1476–1486)
Statue of Ferdowsi in Tus by Abolhassan Sadighi
Depiction of Ferdowsi reading the Shahnameh to Mahmud of Ghazni, Afghanistan
Ferdowsi and the three Ghaznavid court poets
Tus, Iran
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Tus is an ancient city in Khorasan near Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan province, Iran. To the ancient Greeks, it was known as Susia. It was also known as Tusa. Tus was divided into four cities, Tabran, Rada
Ferdowsi
…Tüsī). Ferdowsi (Persian: ابوالقاسم فردوسی توسی) was born into a family of Persian landowners (dehqans) in 940 in the village of Paj, near the city of Tus, in the Khorasan region of the Samanid Empire, which is located in the present-day Razavi Khorasan province of northeastern Iran. Little is known about…
Ferdowsi's tomb in Tus
Toos (ancient Susia) region
The vast Haruniyeh Dome in Tus. Some say it is the tomb of Ghazali, but this is disputed.