شاهنامه فردوسی – Shahnameh

The Shahnameh, Ferdowsi's Book of Kings, complete — free, with no ads and no account.

Read all of Ferdowsi's great epic in the original Persian, beautifully set in Nastaliq, and in the classic English translation by Arthur and Edmond Warner. Almost 50,000 couplets, from the creation of the world to the fall of the Sasanian empire: Kayumars and Jamshid, Zahhak and Kaveh the blacksmith, Zal and the Simurgh, Rostam and Sohrab, Siavash, Bizhan and Manizheh, Esfandiyar, Bahram Gur and many more.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

• Read the full Persian text, story by story, in 61 chapters
• Switch to the English translation at any time
• Verse of the day: a famous couplet on the home screen every day
• Shahnameh Fal: make a wish and draw a couplet, in the old Persian custom
• Search every word of the Persian and English text
• Bookmark couplets, copy them and share them
• Pick up where you left off
• Nastaliq or Vazirmatn typeface, vowel marks on or off, five text sizes
• Night and paper colour themes
• Persian or English app language
• Works offline: the whole book is inside the app

PRIVATE BY DESIGN

No sign-up, no ads, no tracking. Your bookmarks and settings stay on your phone.

SOURCES

Persian text from Ganjoor (ganjoor.net), based on the Moscow edition. English translation by A. G. Warner and E. Warner, The Shahnama of Firdausi, London 1905–1925 (public domain).

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