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April 6, 2017 By Grayson Kennedy Leave a Comment

In “The Shahnameh as World Literature”, author Dick Davis makes some points that I do not agree with. He claims that the Shahnameh is the “sole indigenous literary source” of Persian legends and mythology. But this seems unlikely, as before Persian manuscripts came into fashion they, like many civilizations at the time, shared hundreds of […]

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