BĪŽAN-NAMA ( fa, بیژن 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 ...
epic poem of ca. 1,900 couplets relating the adventures of the legendary hero
Bīžan son of
Giv.
[William Hanaway, Jr., "BĪŽAN-NAMA" in Encyclopaedia Iranica.]
accessed February 2011 Zabiollah Safa, an Iranian literary scholars notes that a large number verses of thies epic were taken from the Bīžan and Manīža in Ferdowsī’s Šāh-nāma.
Jalal Matini
Jalal Matini ( fa, جلال متینی) (born 1928) is a scholar of Persian literature, particularly renowned for his expertise on the epic Shahnameh by Ferdowsi, and contemporary Iranian studies. He is also known for producing the critical editio ...
after closely postulated that the epic is mainly a copy of Ferdowsī’s story with some verses added by the author and some of
Ferdowsi
Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi ( fa, ; 940 – 1019/1025 CE), also Firdawsi or Ferdowsi (), was a Persians, Persian poet and the author of ''Shahnameh'' ("Book of Kings"), which is one of the world's longest epic poetry, epic poems created by a sin ...
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Persian mythology
Poems in Persian
Epic poems in Persian