of the most essential tasks should be done in the field of researches on shāhnāmeh is collecting and analyzing its sporadic verses in other works of persian old literature. the purpose of such approach is shāhnāmeh correction.    since there is a 200 years gap between the time shāhnāmeh was composed (400 ah) up to the time of its earliest version(florence, 614 ah) and since there are almost som...

starting from the 6th century a.h., and especially starting from the mongol era onward, along with the flourishing of historiography, historical shāhnāmeh-composition also became a point of interest, and shāhnāmehs appeared with the aim of recording historical events. in the composition of these shāhnāmehs, ferdowsi’s shāhnāmeh was like a model for the shāhnāmeh-writers, and due to this the spi...

in a structural analysis, the “rebellion & decline” theme creates a narrative structure in which eleven stories of shāhnāmeh – equal to 3.18 per cent of the whole epic – are included, which makes it the tenth largest sequence of the shāhnāmeh. this narrative structure (sequence) consists of initial tranquillity, the king’s rebellion, his decline, and ultimate tranquillity. the epical theme of r...

Iranian myths in children’s literature are the reflection of believers and principles of different groups and they are used as literary and artistic treasure house within the framework of children’s books. By using this method, a child cannot be taught directly while communication with the previous world acquaints with cultural history of epic literature and national myth. Nowadays most of the ...

the present article, following an archetypical criticism, studies the symbolic aspect of the four elements-fire, water, earth, air- and their manifestations in ferdowsi’s shāhnāmeh. the embodiment of the essential opposition and the ultimate unification of the opposing elements is the result of the environmental subjects trying to overcome the nature. in this process, the emotional elements fin...

the word parī (fairy) is the remaining of the avestan word pairīkā that derived from the indo- european root *per- 'to bear, to create', then it can be defined as 'fertile, creative'. pairīkā, in the ancient time were the admirable, beautiful and always young goddesses of birth and fertility that they were denoting to mankind fertility, birth and life with their presence. after zarathuštra made...