Ferdowsi

Hakim Abu ʾl-Qasim Ferdowsi Tusi (940–1020 CE), or Firdawsi, was a highly revered Persian poet and the author of the epic of Shahnameh (the Persian "Book of Kings"), which is the world's longest epic poem created by a single poet, and the national epic of Iran and the Persian-speaking world. Having drafted the Shahnameh under patronage of the Samanid and the Ghaznavid courts of Persia, Ferdowsi is celebrated as one of the most influential Persian poets of all time, and an influential figure in Persian literature.

Name

Except for his kunya (ابوالقاسم - Abu'l-Qāsim) and his laqab (فردوسی - Ferdowsī, meaning "paradisic" in Persian), nothing is known with any certainty about his full name. From an early period on, he has been referred to by different additional names and titles, the most common one being حکیم / Ḥakīm ("philosopher"). Based on this, his full name is given in Persian sources as حکیم ابوالقاسم فردوسی توسی / Ḥakīm Abu'l-Qāsim Firdowsī Țusī. Due to the non-standardized transliteration from Persian into English, different spellings of his name are used in English works, including Firdawsi, Firdusi, Firdosi, Firdausi, etc. The Encyclopaedia of Islam uses the spelling Firdawsī, based on the standardized transliteration method of the German Oriental Society. The Encyclopædia Iranica, which uses a modified version of the same method (with a stronger emphasis on Persian intonations), gives the spelling Ferdowsī. In both cases, the -ow and -aw are to be pronounced as a diphthong ([aʊ̯]), reflecting the original Arabic and the early New Persian pronunciation of the name. The modern Tajik transliteration of his name in Cyrillic script is Ҳаким Абулқосим Фирдавсӣ Тӯсӣ.

Ferdowsi (disambiguation)

Ferdowsi, from Persian فردوسی, also romanized Firdausi, Firdusi, or Firdawsi, may refer to:

People

Hakīm Abul-Qāsim Firdawsī Tūsī, 10th century Persian poet, author of the Shahnameh.

Arash Ferdowsi, cofounder and chief technology officer of Dropbox.

Bobak Ferdowsi, an aerospace engineer who gained brief fame in 2012 as "NASA Mohawk Guy" during the landing of NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover.

Places

The Ferdowsi Gas Field

Ferdowsi University, in Mashad.

Ferdowsi Metro Station, Tehran.

Ferdowsi Street, Tehran.

Ferdowsi Street, Tabriz

Ferdowsi, Kerman

Ferdowsi, Narmashir, Kerman Province

Ferdowsi, North Khorasan

Film

Ferdowsi directed by Abdolhossein Sepanta (1934)

Organizations

Ferdowsi Club - a football club.

Ferdowsi (film)

Ferdowsi (Ferdausi) (Persian title: Ferdosi- Persian: فردوسی‎‎) is a 1934 Iranian biography drama film directed by Abdolhossein Sepanta and starring Nosratollah Mohtasham, Abdolhossein Sepanta and Sohrab Pouri.

The movie is about Iranian famous poet Ferdowsi, author of Shahnameh book of epic poems.

References

↑ فردوسی sourehcinema.com (Persian language)

External links

Ferdowsi at the Internet Movie Database