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‘Shahnameh’ exhibition opens in New Delhi
New Delhi, Nov 30, IRNA – ‘Shahnameh' The Everlasting Heritage of Persia’ exhibition began Monday at the National Archives of India (NIA) in New Delhi.
The exhibition highlighting selected Folios of the Baysonghari manuscripts of the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, organized by the National Archives of India in collaboration with the Iran Culture House in New Delhi, was inaugurated by Ambassador Salman Haider.
Director General, NAI Prof. Mushriul Hasan, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran in New Delhi, Syed Mehdi Nabizadeh and Director, Iran Culture House, Ali Dehgai were also present at the inaugural ceremony.
The exhibition will be on view till 10th December 2010.
The Shahnameh is an enormous poetic opus written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi around 1000 AD and is the national epic of the cultural sphere of Greater Persia.
Consisting of some 60,000 verses, the Shahnameh tells the mythical and historical past of Greater Iran.
Shahnameh, despite being more than 1000 years old, is read by Persian speakers throughout the world in its original form. This makes the Shahnameh different from other epics which are written in languages that are now dead.
A number of English translations of the Shahnameh have been produced.
However, almost all of these include only the first half of the work, and ignore the second. Given the length of the poem, it is perhaps not surprising that only one complete English translation has ever been produced./end
The exhibition highlighting selected Folios of the Baysonghari manuscripts of the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, organized by the National Archives of India in collaboration with the Iran Culture House in New Delhi, was inaugurated by Ambassador Salman Haider.
Director General, NAI Prof. Mushriul Hasan, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran in New Delhi, Syed Mehdi Nabizadeh and Director, Iran Culture House, Ali Dehgai were also present at the inaugural ceremony.
The exhibition will be on view till 10th December 2010.
The Shahnameh is an enormous poetic opus written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi around 1000 AD and is the national epic of the cultural sphere of Greater Persia.
Consisting of some 60,000 verses, the Shahnameh tells the mythical and historical past of Greater Iran.
Shahnameh, despite being more than 1000 years old, is read by Persian speakers throughout the world in its original form. This makes the Shahnameh different from other epics which are written in languages that are now dead.
A number of English translations of the Shahnameh have been produced.
However, almost all of these include only the first half of the work, and ignore the second. Given the length of the poem, it is perhaps not surprising that only one complete English translation has ever been produced./end
