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Shâhnâmeh : Le Livre des Rois persans
En persan, le Shâhnâmeh signifie à la fois " le Livre des Rois " et "le Roi des Livres". Cette épopée mythologique, la plus grande jamais écrite en langue persane (60 000 distiques), de Ferdowsi, poète persan du Xe siècle, né dans le village de Badji, province de Khorassan en Iran, a non seulement transformé l'assemblée du Sultân Mahmoud Ghaznavide en ferdows, ou " paradis ", au début du XIe siècle, mais a surtout revitalisé la langue persane à une époque où elle risquait d'être supplantée par l'arabe. Depuis plus de mille ans, Le Livre des Rois persans, dont l'originalité tient à sa structure générale, à la qualité de sa langue et à son ambition didactique, garde vivante la connaissance de la gloire ancienne, de l'éthique politique et de l'identité culturelle de l'Iran. Et cela grâce aux manuscrits illustrés ou calligraphiés du Shâhnâmeh, dont les princes et les rois des dynasties iraniennes n'ont cessé de commander de nouvelles copies.
Les morceaux choisis dans le présent recueil offrent une première approche synthétique de cet ouvrage fondateur et considérable par son volume et son rayonnement.
Les morceaux choisis dans le présent recueil offrent une première approche synthétique de cet ouvrage fondateur et considérable par son volume et son rayonnement.
- GenresIran
307 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2021
About the author
Abolqasem Ferdowsi
258 books358 followersAbolqasem Ferdowsi (Persian: ابوالقاسم فردوسی), the son of a wealthy land owner, was born in 935 in a small village named Paj near Tus in Khorasan which is situated in today's Razavi Khorasan province in Iran.
He devoted more than 35 years to his great epic, the Shāhnāmeh. It was originally composed for presentation to the Samanid princes of Khorasan, who were the chief instigators of the revival of Iranian cultural traditions after the Arab conquest of the seventh century. Ferdowsi started his composition of the Shahnameh in the Samanid era in 977 A.D. During Ferdowsi's lifetime the Samanid dynasty was conquered by the Ghaznavid Empire. After 30 years of hard work, he finished the book and two or three years after that, Ferdowsi went to Ghazni, the Ghaznavid capital, to present it to the king, Sultan Mahmud.
Ferdowsi is said to have died around 1020 in poverty at the age of 85, embittered by royal neglect, though fully confident of his work's ultimate success and fame, as he says in the verse:
" ... I suffered during these thirty years, but I have revived the Iranians (Ajam) with the Persian language; I shall not die since I am alive again, as I have spread the seeds of this language ..."
He devoted more than 35 years to his great epic, the Shāhnāmeh. It was originally composed for presentation to the Samanid princes of Khorasan, who were the chief instigators of the revival of Iranian cultural traditions after the Arab conquest of the seventh century. Ferdowsi started his composition of the Shahnameh in the Samanid era in 977 A.D. During Ferdowsi's lifetime the Samanid dynasty was conquered by the Ghaznavid Empire. After 30 years of hard work, he finished the book and two or three years after that, Ferdowsi went to Ghazni, the Ghaznavid capital, to present it to the king, Sultan Mahmud.
Ferdowsi is said to have died around 1020 in poverty at the age of 85, embittered by royal neglect, though fully confident of his work's ultimate success and fame, as he says in the verse:
" ... I suffered during these thirty years, but I have revived the Iranians (Ajam) with the Persian language; I shall not die since I am alive again, as I have spread the seeds of this language ..."
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