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Firdausi

American

[feer-dou-see] / fɪərˈdaʊ si /

Also Firdousi,

noun

Abul Qasim Mansu or Hasan, 932–1020, Persian poet.

Firdausi British

/ fɪəˈdaʊsɪ, fɪəˈduːsɪ /

noun

pen name of Abul Qasim Mansur ?935–1020 _ad , Persian epic poet; author of Shah Nama ( The Book of Kings ), a chronicle of the legends and history of Persia

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In Nigeria's Kaduna state, Firdausi Mohammed Usman has also begun online classes.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2022

Dr. Firdausi Qadri, a leading ICDDR,B researcher, estimated last year that success there would require almost 200 million doses.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2017

His latest: a speech last week at Columbia commemorating the 1,000th anniversary of the birth of Persia's Epic Poet Firdausi.

From Time Magazine Archive

Many consider Jami's celebrated Yusuf and Zulaikha, a dramatic poem modelled after Firdausi, to be the finest poem in the Persian language.

From Oriental Women by Pollard, Edward Bagby

Persia's great epic poets, notably Firdausi in Shahnamah, have preserved many of the early traditions of this land.

From Oriental Women by Pollard, Edward Bagby

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