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{{Infobox book
| title = Shahnameh
| original title = شاهنامه
| image = Sukhra defeating the Hephthalites.jpg
| caption = "Sufarai's Victory over the Haital", attributed to Bashdan Qara
| author = Ferdowsi
| central theme =
| elevator pitch = A recounting of the Persian kings from the creation of the world to the Arab conquest
| genre = History, Epic poem
| publication date = 1010
| source page exists =
| wiki URL =
| wiki name =
}}
''[[The Shahnameh]]'' is a 50,000 verse [[Narrative Poem|epic poem]] written by the Persian poet [[wikipedia:Ferdowsi|Ferdowsi]], started in 977 and finished in 1010. Its name translates as ''Book of Kings'', and [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|that's basically what it is]]: A recounting of the Persian kings from the creation of the world to the Arab conquest. Most of these kings are mythical, though. The closer the narrative gets to the time of Ferdowsi's writing, the more historically accurate it becomes.
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