Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
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Sean Rohani
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Nikki Massoud
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Dick Davis
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The definitive translation by Dick Davis of the great national epic of Iran—now newly revised and expanded to be the most complete English-language edition
Dick Davis—“our pre-eminent translator from the Persian” (The Washington Post)—has revised and expanded his acclaimed translation of Ferdowsi’s masterpiece, adding more than 100 pages of newly translated text. Davis’s elegant combination of prose and verse allows the poetry of the Shahnameh to sing its own tales directly, interspersed sparingly with clearly marked explanations to ease along modern audiences.
Originally composed for the Samanid princes of Khorasan in the tenth century, the Shahnameh is among the greatest works of world literature. This prodigious narrative tells the story of pre-Islamic Persia, from the mythical creation of the world and the dawn of Persian civilization through the seventh-century Arab conquest. The stories of the Shahnameh are deeply embedded in Persian culture and beyond, as attested by their appearance in such works as The Kite Runner and the love poems of Rumi and Hafez.
This audiobook is expertly read by Dick Davis, Nikki Massoud, and Sean Rohani with audio engineering by Blake Rook. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.
Our sincere gratitude to the Parwiz Zafari fund at the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies at Stanford University for their generous support in bringing this audio production to life. You can learn more about their work at iranianstudies.stanford.edu.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©1997, 2000, 2004, 2016 Mage Publishers (P)2025 Echo Point Books & Media, LLCLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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The iconic love story of the Middle East, by a 12th-century Persian poet who has been compared to Shakespeare for his subtlety, inventiveness, and dramatic force, Layli and Majnun tells of star-crossed lovers whose union is tragically thwarted by their families and whose passion continues to ripple out across the centuries. Theirs is a love that lasts a lifetime, and in Nezami's immortal telling, erotic longing blends with spiritual self-denial in an allegory of Sufi aspiration, as the amenities of civilization give way to the elemental wilderness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book
- De Anthony W. en 10-03-22
De: Nezami Ganjavi, y otros
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Khosrow and Shirin
- De: Nezami Ganjavi, Dick Davis - translator
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim, Mozhan Navabi, Dick Davis
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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Based on historical characters of the seventh-century Iranian court and written 850 years ago, the narrative poem about Khosrow and Shirin shares a shelf with the most intensely romantic classic stories readers love, from Tristan and Isolde to Layla and Majnun to Romeo and Juliet to Gatsby and Daisy.
De: Nezami Ganjavi, y otros
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The Mahabharata
- De: John D. Smith - translator
- Narrado por: Shaheen Khan, Sagar Arya
- Duración: 44 h y 7 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 23
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The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. It is of immense importance to the culture of the Indian subcontinent and is a major text of Hinduism. Its discussion of human goals (artha or 'purpose', kama or 'pleasure', dharma or 'duty' and moksha or 'liberation') takes place in a long-standing tradition, attempting to explain the relationship of the individual to society and the world (the nature of the 'self') and the workings of karma.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Confusing arrangement ruins it
- De R.B. en 03-26-21
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The Mirror of My Heart
- A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women
- De: Dick Davis - translator introduction
- Narrado por: Dick Davis, Mozhan Marnò, Tala Ashe, y otros
- Duración: 6 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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An anthology of verse by women poets writing in Persian, most of whom have never been translated into English before, from acclaimed scholar and translator Dick Davis. From Rabe'eh in the 10th century to Fatemeh Ekhtesari in the 21st, the women poets found in The Mirror of My Heart write across the millennium on such universal topics as marriage, children, political climate, death, and emancipation, recreating life from hundreds of years ago that is strikingly similar to our own today and giving insight into their experiences as women.
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The Conference of the Birds
- De: Attar, Sholeh Wolpé - Translated by
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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Considered by Rumi to be "the master" of Sufi mystic poetry, Attar is best known for this epic poem, a magnificent allegorical tale about the soul's search for meaning. He recounts the perilous journey of the world's birds to the faraway peaks of Mount Qaf in search of the mysterious Simorgh, their king. Attar's beguiling anecdotes and humor intermingle the sublime with the mundane, the spiritual with the worldly, while his poem models the soul's escape from the mind's rational embrace.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Masterpiece
- De mks en 10-02-22
De: Attar, y otros
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Joseph and His Brothers: Book 1
- The Tales of Jacob
- De: Thomas Mann
- Narrado por: Mark Elstob
- Duración: 14 h y 30 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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In this first volume subtitled ‘The Stories of Jacob', Mann begins with a meditative prelude named “Descent into Hell”, which contextualises the story against a variety of historical, mythological, and historical contexts, before moving on to the story of Joseph's father Jacob. The following chapters follow Jacob as we learn of him stealing his brother's birthright, before fleeing to his uncle Laban and his later marriages to Rachel and Leah.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful
- De Jewel D. en 05-17-25
De: Thomas Mann
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Forest of Noise
- Poems
- De: Mosab Abu Toha
- Narrado por: Mosab Abu Toha
- Duración: 1 h y 10 m
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Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu Toha was already a well-known poet when the current siege of Gaza began. After the Israeli army bombed and destroyed his house, pulverizing a library he had painstakingly built for community use, he and his family fled for their safety. Not for the first time in their lives. Somehow, amid the chaos, Abu Toha kept writing poems. These are those poems. Uncannily clear, direct, and beautifully tuned, they form one of the most astonishing works of art wrested from wartime.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful, powerful, and devastating
- De N.K. en 10-25-24
De: Mosab Abu Toha
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Zoroastrianism and the Teachings of Zarathustra
- The Zoroastrian Creed and Selected Sacred Hymns of Zoroaster with Prayers and Liturgies of the Faith in Modern-Day English
- De: L.H. Mills, James Darmesteter, James Hope Moulton
- Narrado por: Veronica Ambrose
- Duración: 1 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Would you like to improve your thoughts and feelings about the world around you? If so, then you will find Zoroastrianism and the Teachings of Zarathustra: The Zoroastrian Creed and Selected Sacred Hymns of Zoroaster with Prayers and Liturgies of the Faith in Modern-Day English richly rewarding. Referred to as Mazdayasna by its followers, Zoroastrianism is widely regarded as the world’s first monotheistic religion, meaning that it worships a single divine god.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazed Christian reviews Zoroastrianism
- De Chance Cansler en 09-23-23
De: L.H. Mills, y otros
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Iran
- A Modern History
- De: Abbas Amanat
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 41 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 276
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This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds of years. The book covers the complex history of the diverse societies and economies of Iran against the background of dynastic changes, revolutions, civil wars, foreign occupation, and the rise of the Islamic Republic.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Extremely Opinionated.
- De Elijah Rose en 02-13-19
De: Abbas Amanat
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The Water Margin
- Outlaws of the Marsh
- De: Shi Naian, J. H. Jackson - translator, Edwin Lowe - translator
- Narrado por: Jonathan Booth
- Duración: 33 h y 41 m
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The Water Margin is one of the most popular classics of early Chinese literature. It tells the vigorous story of 108 characters who, falling foul of the established state authorities, are forced to become outlaws. They form a bandit community in Liangshan Marsh, becoming such a formidable force in their own right that they threaten the power of government itself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exciting! Each story entwined with one another!
- De Kananai en 04-03-24
De: Shi Naian, y otros
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Mahabharata: The Greatest Spiritual Epic of All Time
- De: Krishna Dharma
- Narrado por: Sarvabhavana Das
- Duración: 45 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 847
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 750
Said to be the world's longest poem, Mahabharata was originally composed in 100,000 Sanskrit verses by the ancient Indian sage Vyasa. Revered as a sacred text within Hinduism, it contains the great spiritual teaching Bhagavad-gita. Krishna Dharma has condensed the epic into a fast paced novel that fully retains the majestic mood of the original. A powerful and moving tale, it recounts the history of the five heroic Pandava brothers, sons of the Emperor Pandu.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator's constant mispronunciations ruined it...
- De GrayDharma en 11-23-15
De: Krishna Dharma
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Persian Mythology
- Captivating Myths of Gods, Goddesses, Heroes, and Legendary Creatures
- De: Matt Clayton
- Narrado por: Michael Reaves
- Duración: 3 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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You may have studied the ancient Persian Empire in school, but have you ever wondered what kinds of stories the ancient Persians told to themselves and their children? The roots of Persian myth extend back more than five thousand years to the culture of the Aryan people who migrated into Iran from India. Ideas from this ancient culture have enjoyed amazing longevity and are alive even today as part of the Zoroastrian faith, which is still practiced in Iran, India, and several other places around the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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New perspectives on mythology
- De Anonymous User en 03-27-25
De: Matt Clayton
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Persians
- The Age of the Great Kings
- De: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- Narrado por: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- Duración: 18 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 183
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The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over the largest empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the steppes of Asia and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. In Persians, historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells the epic story of this dynasty and the world it ruled. Drawing on Iranian inscriptions, cuneiform tablets, art, and archaeology, he shows how the Achaemenid Persian Empire was the world’s first superpower—one built, despite its imperial ambition, on cooperation and tolerance. This is the definitive history of the Achaemenid dynasty and its legacies in modern-day Iran.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good History and Historiography
- De David A en 04-19-22
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The Iliad
- De: Homer, Robert Fagles - translator, Bernard Knox - introduction notes
- Narrado por: Vidish Athavale
- Duración: 21 h y 11 m
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This translation of The Iliad equals Fitzgerald's earlier Odyssey in power and imagination. It recreates the original action as conceived by Homer, using fresh and flexible blank verse that is both lyrical and dramatic.
De: Homer, y otros
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Arabs
- A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes, and Empires
- De: Tim Mackintosh-Smith
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 25 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 301
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This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic language, rather than the advent of Islam, Tim Mackintosh-Smith begins his narrative more than a thousand years before Muhammad and focuses on how Arabic, both spoken and written, has functioned as a vital source of shared cultural identity over the millennia.
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4 out of 5 stars
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“The hourglass that swallows you”
- De Jefferson en 05-22-21
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Hunchback
- A Novel
- De: Saou Ichikawa
- Narrado por: Polly Barton, Yuriri Naka
- Duración: 1 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 11
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Born with a congenital muscle disorder, Shaka spends her days in her room in a care home outside Tokyo, relying on an electric wheelchair to get around and a ventilator to breathe. But if Shaka’s physical life is limited, her quick, mischievous mind has no boundaries: She takes e-learning courses on her iPad, publishes explicit fantasies on websites, and anonymously troll-tweets to see if anyone is paying attention (“In another life, I’d like to work as a high-class prostitute”). One day, she tweets into the void an offer of an enormous sum of money for a sperm donor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Blooming from the Mud
- De The Rasher en 04-01-25
De: Saou Ichikawa
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Cerebral Entanglements
- How the Brain Shapes Our Public and Private Lives
- De: Allan J. Hamilton
- Narrado por: Tom Beyer
- Duración: 14 h y 26 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 4
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It took a brain surgeon who's spent a lifetime in the operating room experiencing the brain's union of form and function to write this book. Cerebral Entanglements, unlike most books on the brain, looks at the intimate and vital emotions in our lives, and shows as well, how neuroimaging studies can transform our understanding of crucial emotional or mental health concerns.