Hossein Ziai

Professor of Islamic and Iranian Studies and Director of Iranian Studies, UCLA

Poet and Hero in the Persian Book of Kings

This new edition of Davidson’s work will allow the increasing number of students in Iranian studies to gain access to a meaningful and creative study of Ferdowsi’s Book of Kings, the jewel of Persian poetic expression of the dynamic mythos and epic constructs of the Iranian people.

  • © Hossein Ziai 2012