The Shahnameh, an epic poem recounting the foundation of Iran
across mythical, heroic, and historical ages, is the beating heart
of Persian literature and culture. Composed by Abu al-Qasem
Ferdowsi over a thirty-year period and completed in the year 1010,
the epic has entertained generations of readers and profoundly
shaped Persian culture, society, and politics. For a millennium,
Iranian and Persian-speaking people around the globe have read,
memorized, discussed, performed, adapted, and loved the poem. In
this book, Hamid Dabashi brings the Shahnameh to renewed global
attention, encapsulating a lifetime of learning and teaching the
Persian epic for a new generation of readers. Dabashi insightfully
traces the epic's history, authorship, poetic significance,
complicated legacy of political uses and abuses, and enduring
significance in colonial and postcolonial contexts. In addition to
explaining and celebrating what makes the Shahnameh such a
distinctive literary work, he also considers the poem in the
context of other epics, such as the Aeneid and the Odyssey, and
critical debates about the concept of world literature. Arguing
that Ferdowsi's epic and its reception broached this idea long
before nineteenth-century Western literary criticism, Dabashi makes
a powerful case that we need to rethink the very notion of "world
literature" in light of his reading of the Persian epic.
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