The ''Bahman-nameh'' ( fa, بهمن نامه) is a

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

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poem of around 9500 lines, which describes the exploits of

Kay Bahman Kay Bahman or -Wahman (from Middle Persian: 𐭥𐭤𐭥𐭬𐭭 ''Wahman'' "good mind") is a mythological figure of Greater Iranian legend and lore. The stock epithet ''Kai'' identifies Bahman as one of the Kayanian kings of Iranian oral traditio ...

, the son of Esfandiyar of the royal

Kayanid dynasty The Kayanians (Persian: دودمان کیانیان; also Kays, Kayanids, Kaianids, Kayani, or Kiani) are a legendary dynasty of Persian/Iranian tradition and folklore which supposedly ruled after the Pishdadians. Considered collectively, the Kay ...

. The earliest attestation of this work is in the book '' Mojmal al-tawarikh'', which gives the author as Iranshan ibn Abi'-Khayr ( Iranshah). Iranshah most likely wrote the ''Bahman-nama'' between 1092–1108, as indicated by mentions of historical events, and mentions of the

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sultans

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() and

Muhammad I Tapar Abu Shuja Ghiyath al-Dunya wa'l-Din Muhammad ibn Malik-Shah ( fa, , Abū Shujāʿ Ghiyāth al-Dunyā wa ’l-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Malik-Šāh; 1082 – 1118), better known as Muhammad I Tapar (), was the sultan of the Seljuk Empire from 1105 to 111 ...

(). Iranshah states that the ''Bahman-nama'' was inspired by the ceaseless battles and wars of his patron, Muhammad I Tapar, which reminded him of the ceaseless battles between Bahman and

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's family. This implies that the work was also written to serve as advice for solving the socio-political issues of the time.

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