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Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh: A Persian Classic
The Persian ‘Book of Kings’ — the Shahnameh
— is
the national epic of the Iranian people. It traces the history of the
Iranian world from its creation to the fall of the Sasanian Empire in
the seventh century. The Arab conquest brought fundamental changes,
replacing the Zoroastrian religion with Islam and the Middle Persian
(Pahlavi) language with Arabic.
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The following is a selection of manuscripts included in this section of the exhibition. The numbers correspond to the order of the display and the entries in the catalogue.
 No. 1 |  No. 2 |  No. 3 |
 No. 4 |  No. 5 |  No. 7 |
 No. 9 |  No. 10 |
