“Every nation has a book that represents the personality of that nation. For example: the British people have the works of Shakespeare, the Greeks have the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Italians have The Divine Comedy by Dante, and we have the Shahnameh,” he told the Mehr News Agency on Saturday.
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Some scholar really. How dare he not mention the Zend-Avesta? After all, Shahnameh is a poor reprint of Khodayeh-Namak, which itself relates to Zend-Avesta.
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