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“ahmad ferdowsi”

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  • Shahnameh

    The Epic of the Persian Kings [Readers Edition]

    by Ferdowsi ...
    Translated by Ahmad Sadri ...
    A fresh, lyrical new translation of Persia’s founding epic.Abu al-Qasem Ferdowsi (940–1020 CE), one of Iran’s greatest poets, versified the ancient legends of the Persian Book of Kings (Shahnameh) in verse over one thousand years ago. It is the longest poem written by a single poet. A combination of myth and history told over a series of 50,000 elegant couplets, Ferdowsi dedicated thirty-three ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Planning and Management for Sustainable Water Resources and Infrastructure under Climate Change

    Edited by Kourosh Behzadian, Ahmad Ferdowsi, Babak Zolghadr-Asli ...
    Planning and Management for Sustainable Water Resources and Infrastructure under Climate Change explores the critical intersection of climate change, and sustainable water resources and infrastructure. With a diverse range of chapters covering topics from public participation and water governance to smart technologies, it provides a holistic understanding of the current concerns, core challenges, ... Read more

    $157.49 USD

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  • Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra

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    by Moyra Caldecott ...
    Series Book 3 - The Egyptian Sequence
    Ankhesenamun has never been safe in all her short life – not even with her beloved husband and half brother Tutankhamun.Daughter of Pharaoh Akhenaten and the fabled Nefertiti, and married at one time to her father, she is forced to marry Tutankhamun by the powerful General Horemheb at a time of bitter political and religious division. Ankhesenamun is the delicate link between scheming factions ... Read more

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  • Akhenaten: Son of the Sun

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    Series Book 2 - The Egyptian Sequence
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  • Shahnameh

    The Persian Book of Kings

    by Abolqasem Ferdowsi ...
    Translated by Dick Davis ...
    Among the great works of world literature, perhaps one of the least familiar to English readers is the Shahnameh: ThePersian Book of Kings, the national epic of Persia. This prodigious narrative, composed by the poet Ferdowsi between the years 980 and 1010, tells the story of pre- Islamic Iran, beginning in the mythic time of Creation and continuing forward to the Arab invasion in the seventh ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Shahnameh

    The Persian Book of Kings

    by Abolqasem Ferdowsi ...
    Translated by Dick Davis ...
    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 editionA Penguin ClassicDick 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 ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • Cleopatra's Shadows

    A Fall of Egypt Novel

    by Emily Holleman ...
    Series series Fall of Egypt Novels
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  • Three Novels of Ancient Egypt Khufu's Wisdom, Rhadopis of Nubia, Thebes at War

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    Christian Jacq, author of the international triumphs Ramses and The Stone of Light, brings the people and passions of ancient Egypt to life in an enthralling epic novel in three volumes.Egypt is a shadow of its former self. An army of barbarians mounted on horse-drawn chariots has swept through the Empire, destroying everything in its path. Known as the Hyksos, these "leaders from foreign lands" ... Read more

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  • The Persian Boy

    by Mary Renault ...
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    A New York Times–bestselling novel of the ancient king of Macedon and his lover by the author Hilary Mantel calls "a shining light."The Persian Boy centers on the most tempestuous years of Alexander the Great's life, as seen through the eyes of his lover and most faithful attendant, Bagoas.When Bagoas is very young, his father is murdered and he is sold as a slave to King Darius of Persia. Then, ... Read more

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