Shahnameh: The Epic Of The Persian Kings | The Persians: A History Of Iran | BBC Select

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  • Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
  • Watch Samira Ahmed visit a performance of the Shahnameh an epic tale about Persia's pre-Islamic kings, in this clip from the BBC Select documentary The Persians: A History of Iran. Historians discuss how the Shahnameh is a classic work of history, literature and language.
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  • @nordicson2835
    @nordicson2835 2 роки тому +22

    Really interesting, thank you for showing this.

  • @mehdinaghavi685
    @mehdinaghavi685 2 роки тому +64

    Thank you Noble FERDOWSI for saving the PERSIAN language.

    • @vitorpereira9515
      @vitorpereira9515 2 роки тому +2

      Honor him by loving your homeland in heart and soul ever.

    • @Adil_Turysbek_TVRC
      @Adil_Turysbek_TVRC 9 місяців тому

      Was it about to die?

    • @MM-dm4xj
      @MM-dm4xj 8 місяців тому

      ​@@Adil_Turysbek_TVRCprobably not

    • @moab2312
      @moab2312 7 місяців тому +7

      @@Adil_Turysbek_TVRC arab rulers forced arabic so gradually persian were less spoken in those dark days

    • @AvazFreedom
      @AvazFreedom 3 місяці тому

      Before him Yaghub Lays Safari (Persian name Radman Mahakan) reclaimed Iran‘s independence from the Arab rule and mandated that the Persian language should be used in all official governmental communications. In my humble opinion, he’s the reason Persian still thrived as a language for us to get to the great unparalleled work we have, the Shahnameh.
      Beware the many fake added lines that were not Ferdowsi’s.
      💚🤍♥️

  • @ftahmasebi9059
    @ftahmasebi9059 9 місяців тому +14

    The paintings you see in the book is called Miniature. Miniature painting became a significant genre in Persian art in the 13th century, receiving Chinese influence after the Mongol invasion, and the highest point in the tradition was reached in the 15th and 16th centuries. The tradition continued under some Western influence, and has many modern exponents. The Persian miniature was the dominant influence on other Islamic miniature traditions, principally the Ottoman miniature in Turkey, and the Mughal miniature in the Indian sub-continent.

  • @MohammadDezfulian
    @MohammadDezfulian 2 місяці тому +1

    این مستند درباره شاهنامه و تاریخ ایران بسیار جالب و آموزنده بود. روایت جذاب و تصاویر زیبا به خوبی قدرت و عظمت این اثر حماسی را به تصویر کشیده‌اند

  • @juliarabbitts1595
    @juliarabbitts1595 10 місяців тому +7

    This series inspired me to buy this book of Persian poetry and several others, giving me a view into a world I didn’t know - thank you 🙏

  • @mithridatesi9981
    @mithridatesi9981 2 роки тому +11

    That's so cool🇮🇷❤

  • @Knight7562
    @Knight7562 2 роки тому +8

    great video thanks this video is about my country and i love it so good 👍👍👍

  • @RadvinM-old
    @RadvinM-old Рік тому +5

    Why does this vid has only 10k views? I'm persian(iranian) and this is so important

  • @anoshirawan
    @anoshirawan Місяць тому

    What a great man he was

  • @hassanizadi2240
    @hassanizadi2240 2 роки тому +8

    ❤❤❤🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷❤❤❤

  • @TheProms
    @TheProms 9 місяців тому +2

    Magnificent.

  • @mehrannovember9688
    @mehrannovember9688 8 місяців тому +4

    💚🤍❤ 🇮🇷 🇮🇷 🇮🇷
    💕 VIVA HISTORY OF PERSIA 💞
    💕 زنده باد ایران زمین 💞

  • @plataoplomo9096
    @plataoplomo9096 Рік тому +9

    It's like Greek literature. Greek was conquered by Romans but their civilization survived

    • @mirnowruz
      @mirnowruz 2 місяці тому

      I always thought Greeks and Romans were the same nation or ethnic

  • @asfandyarrrr
    @asfandyarrrr 7 днів тому

    My name is Asfandyar

  • @marybenammar4385
    @marybenammar4385 9 місяців тому +5

    This history should be spoken and told by a Iranian. Not English no it alls.

  • @videoventure9982
    @videoventure9982 Рік тому +7

    When you don't know anything about history then don't say anything; Iranians are not the only Persians.

    • @Ophadelax
      @Ophadelax Рік тому +5

      You're right everyone in that region is Iranian Turkmans Armenians Azarbaijan Kurds Balouchis Lors Qashqais Bakhtiaris Afghans Tajiks All are historically from greater Iran. Unfortunately they fell into the trap of "Divide and Conquer" policies

    • @avestazaza7458
      @avestazaza7458 3 місяці тому +2

      Shahnameh Persian History and Culture.👍👏👏👏

    • @avestazaza7458
      @avestazaza7458 3 місяці тому +2

      Shahnameh Persian History and Culture. Not kurdis, Not Turkic, Not Armenian.✌️

    • @elvice3262
      @elvice3262 27 днів тому

      @@avestazaza7458 Kurds are lost lur

  • @jakeb8298
    @jakeb8298 2 роки тому +3

    The paintings depict mongols!

    • @ehsansar9726
      @ehsansar9726 2 роки тому +14

      Yes. The interesting point is that when Turkic nomads and Mongols came into Iran, they became fascinated with Iranian culture including the Shahnameh. They even chose Persian names for their children and some tried to make an ancestral line to pre-Islamic dynesties.
      The copies of that era especially resemble mongoloid faces

    • @YY-ug9mv
      @YY-ug9mv 2 роки тому +1

      Nope they are most definetly turks..mongols stayed in iran for 100 years turks for 1000 years and they are still there they call themselves iranian and speak both persian and turkish and they see themself as iranian..seljuks..safavids,mughals all revere shahname.Persian is literary language of turkish/persian elite world.In army they speak turkish but in court persian poety is more prestigious and in science arabic.Kind of like usage of latin in the west even though they are german english or french.

    • @YY-ug9mv
      @YY-ug9mv 2 роки тому

      @@ehsansar9726 well when you rule somewhere 1000 years and still exist there you tend to use similar names... nothing more natural, like a french using name christian, Turks learned İslam from samanids not arabs so.. Makes sense..shahname is written during the patronage of Mahmud of ghazni by firdawsi, Mahmud was turkish sultan as i told literary they used persian army turkish.. Slenty eye is called mongoloid face.. Not that they are mongols

    • @bghn4114
      @bghn4114 2 роки тому

      What?
      No
      Its the art style

  • @tokyoskp5955
    @tokyoskp5955 8 місяців тому +2

    That’s not true! It’s made up story the shahname saved Persian. It’s lie

    • @Sahar_wB
      @Sahar_wB 4 місяці тому

      No, this is true, after the Arab invasion, the Persian language was banned for 200 years, and Radmanpour Mahek and Ferdowsi saved it, people secretly read the Shahnameh in their homes at night, because this is not just a story, this is the history of my country and the motherland. Strong worship of Ferdowsi, because they wanted to steal our identity, but they could not with our struggle

    • @elvice3262
      @elvice3262 27 днів тому

      @@Sahar_wB It's not true, all the Iranian peoples were more than 20 million, do you think that a few tens of thousands of Arabs could have done such a suicidal thing?

    • @elvice3262
      @elvice3262 27 днів тому

      @@Sahar_wB The truth is that it was really a project but when the Arabs saw the arduous task, they did not do it.

  • @Hun_ghuri
    @Hun_ghuri 2 роки тому +4

    Firdawsi was the court poet of sultan Mehmud Khan of Ghazni , he received a sack of gold for every single poem .

    • @ostokhoon9822
      @ostokhoon9822 Рік тому +3

      So what?

    • @smartecho3766
      @smartecho3766 Рік тому

      I think this ferdowsi is different.

    • @shadowborn1456
      @shadowborn1456 2 місяці тому

      No it was too late by the time sultan realized the true value of shahnameh ferdowsi was passed away

  • @montgomeryha4921
    @montgomeryha4921 Рік тому +2

    ya, the persons in this book, look like chinese and turks and not persians

    • @ftahmasebi9059
      @ftahmasebi9059 9 місяців тому +7

      The paintings you see in that book are called miniature paintings. The miniatures are influenced by Chinese art, as it shares many similarities in terms of style and mythical creatures depicted. Which leads to the popular notion that Persian miniatures paintings originated from Chinese influence

  • @kandaharanar2091
    @kandaharanar2091 Рік тому +2

    Stil nothing from the book bit only fantastic words usening to protent that the book is fabulous but we did’t here a word whats written in the book how fabulous is that hypocrossy shits