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The 23 pages that link to Ferdowsi, each with the reason it gives.

• Persian literatureRelated: His epic helped preserve and renew Persian literary identity after the Arab conquest.

• Persian miniatureRelated: His poem supplied generations of miniature painters with iconic stories and characters.

• ShahnamehRelated: His decades-long composition gave the poem its enduring literary form.

• Samanid EmpireRelated: His epic’s early Persian literary tradition grew partly from the culture fostered under the Samanids.

• Persian poetryRelated: His epic helped secure Persian as a language of monumental literary narrative.

• KhorasanRelated: Ferdowsi was born near Tus in Khorasan and made Persian epic tradition central to his work.

• Ghaznavid EmpireRelated: The Shahnameh is traditionally associated with the Ghaznavid court, though the details of its presentation to Mahmud remain uncertain.

• Battle of al-QadisiyyahRelated: His epic recounts the defeat and death of Rostam in a Persian literary tradition.

• MashhadRelated: His tomb near Mashhad draws visitors to the city’s wider cultural region.

• New PersianRelated: His work demonstrates how New Persian could preserve Iranian legends with comparatively little Arabic vocabulary.

• Mahmud of GhazniRelated: Stories about his relationship with Mahmud became part of the sultan’s cultural legacy.

• PersianizationRelated: His epic became a durable expression of Persian language and historical identity.

• Razavi Khorasan ProvinceRelated: His tomb near Tus connects the province with a foundational work of Persian literature.

• Iranian IntermezzoRelated: His epic helped preserve Iranian historical memory during the era of Persian-speaking courts.

• ShatranjRelated: His epic preserved a famous legendary narrative about chess’s arrival in Persia.

• History of IranRelated: His epic preserved pre-Islamic Iranian narratives and shaped later cultural memory.

• Persian mythologyRelated: His epic preserved pre-Islamic Iranian legends in enduring Persian verse.

• Bahram ChobinRelated: His poem shaped the best-known later account of Bahram.

• GhazniRelated: His relationship with Mahmud’s court links Ghazni to Persian literary history.

• Bahram BeyzaiRelated: The epic he authored is a major source of the myths Beyzai revisits.

• BarbadRelated: His Shahnameh preserves a famous literary portrayal of Barbad.

• Great Mongol ShahnamehRelated: His poem supplied the manuscript’s narrative and cultural authority.

• Turco-Persian traditionRelated: His epic became a lasting source of Iranian kingship and cultural memory for Persianate courts.