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Major worksShahnameh (Book of Kings)
The Persian poet who spent some three decades composing the Shahnameh, the "Book of Kings," the national epic of Iran and one of the longest poems ever written by a single author. Telling the mythical and historical saga of Persia from creation to the Arab conquest, it preserved the Persian language and gave the Iranian world an enduring sense of its own identity.
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