The Medieval Reception of the Shāhnāma as a Mirror for Princes

Through an examination of a wide range of medieval sources and a close textual study of the account about Ardashīr in the Shāhnāma, Nasrin Askari demonstrates that medieval authors understood Firdausī's opus primarily as a mirror for princes

About the author

Nasrin Askari, PhD, (2012), University of Toronto, has completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of British Columbia, and is currently a Bahari Visiting Scholar in the Persian Arts of the Book at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.

Product details

• Authors: Nasrin Askari
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.08.2016
• EAN: 9789004307902
• ISBN: 978-90-04-30790-2
• No. of pages: 410
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 231 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 658 g
• Series: Studies in Persian Cultural Hi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous