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The greatest poet of Persia — now Iran — was Abu ol-Qasem Mansur, who wrote under the name
Firdawsi. He wrote the country's national epic, 'Book of Kings', in its final form. Of the man himself,
little is known. The most reliable source of information is an account by a 12th-century poet, Nezamiye
'Aruzi, who visited Firdawsi's native village of Tus and collected stories about him. Firdawsi was
born about 935, the son of a wealthy landowner. It was to earn money for his daughter's dowry that he
began the 35-year task of composing the 'Book of Kings', or 'Shah-nameh' as it is called in Persian.
The work, nearly 60,000 couplets long, was based on a prose work of the same name, itself a
translation of a history of the kings of Persia from the most ancient times down to the reign of
Khosrow II in the 7th. When the poem was completed in 1010, Firdawsi presented it to Mahmud, the
sultan of Ghanza, in the hope of being well paid for it. In this the poet was disappointed: He
considered his reward so paltry that he gave it away. This angered Mahmud, and Firdawsi fled to
Herat, then to Mazanderan. Some years later, Mahmud tried to make amends to the poet by sending
him a valuable amount of indigo. Unfortunately the shipment arrived at Tus on the same day that
Firdawsi's body was being taken to the cemetery for burial. His daughter refused the award. The 'Book
of Kings' has remained one of the most popular works in the Persian language. Modern Iranians
understand it easily because the language in which it was written bears a relationship to modern
Persian — a relationship similar to that between Shakespearean English and contemporary English.