An epic poem written in the 11th Century helped save the Persian language, writes Joobin Bekhrad. To say that, by and large, we Iranians are proud of our ancient culture and the Persian language ...

begun in the 10th century and finished in the 11th century by the poet Abolqasem Ferdowsi when the Persian Empire was a memory and Arabs dominated what is now the nation of Iran. The story told in ...

They contained the text, binding and 118 miniature ... composed at the turn of the 11th century by the poet Ferdowsi, is a foundational artefact of Persian culture. Its narrative mixes myth ...

A newly rediscovered fragment of Ibn Sīnā's Canon of Medicine University College Cork In the 11th century, the Persian physician ... owners noticed the strange text stitched into the binding.

TEHRAN -- A series of classic Persian stories rewritten in the modern style of contemporary literature has hit the Iranian market under the title “Once Upon a Time”. The series contains three books: ...