Zafarnamah (Mustawfi)

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Zafarnamah (Persian: ظفرنامه, lit. 'Book of Victory') is an epic poem written by the Persian poet, historian and geographer Hamdallah Mustawfi (d. 1334). The epic history, compiled in 75,000 couplets, explores Iranian history from the Arab conquest to the Mongols.

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