The traditional artistic illustration of the Shahnameh spilled out of the manuscripts on to palace walls and artifacts
Arnavaz S. Mama
The Shahnameh’s (SN) many facets were examined by international scholars at the seminar hosted by the K. R. Cama Oriental Institute January 8 and 9, 2011. Parsiana presents synopsis of their papers in six installments beginning with a review of the many celebrations of the epic a thousand years after it was composed (August 7, 2011). Subsequent installments dealt with the Parthian influence and the poet’s concept of evil (August 21, 2011), some of the sub-plots in the poem that spans human memory from prehistory to the fall of the Sasanians (September 7, 2011) and conflicting perceptions of Alexander (September......