The Qajar paintings can be categorized into two main periods: the first period, initiated at the beginning of the reign of Fath-Ali Shah and continued until the reign of Naser al-din Shah. It focuses on the combination of ornamental and Persian painting forms with the achievements of naturalist art such as perspective principle and its important feature is the total domination of Persian art. I...

Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh is one of the greatest epic poems in the world. The outstanding values of this poem have not been hidden from the painters of different periods and they have drawn illustrations for many stories of Shahnameh. The combat of Rostam and Sohrab has been one of the most interesting themes for these painters. Due to the existence of different layers of meaning in Shahnameh, Shahn...

fantasy and fantasizing based on shahnameh in children's and young adults' literature     dr. m. pourkhaleqi                         m. jalali ferdowsi university [email protected]     abstract fantasy is one of the practical genres in children and young adult's literature. the most important aspect of this genre is its being imaginative and impossible to happen in the real world. ...

The myth taken from the Greek "Historia" means search, knowledge and story and tells the story of ancient men and their beliefs about creation. As a wise poet, Ferdowsi uses the language of code to express the myths of the Shahnameh, and reminds the reader: "Do not count this as a lie." Mysticism is a way of attaining the status of nearness to God, based on austerity and piety. Mystics use myth...

Background: Literature has always focused on ethics as a fundamental aspect of social life. Moral thoughts ‎are one of those issues which have been intensively discussed ‎in classic literature. Meanwhile Ferdowsi's ‎Shahnameh is not only a unique literary work ‎that has special impacts on the readers, but also it has ‎touched upon a series of moral and ‎human problems. It has used epic literatu...

The painters of Tahmasbi Shahnameh, in order to depict the text full of the story of Shahnameh, tried to convey emotions and excitement to the audience by using the visual language of the hand. Due to the multiplicity of applications of this type of nonverbal communication in different situations, the painter may have undergone changes in parts of her painting under the influence of various fac...