Discussion surrounding the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi: On the exact history of the end of the Shahnameh: A letter about the Shahnameh by a monthly magazine مقاله

خلاصه ماشینی:

It is imagined that the value of Staviakoff's research does not possess that degree of precision and acceptable value that you, for the sake of a meaningless phrase by a contemporary author, would exert upon all old and new manuscripts of the Shahnameh, the four introductions, biographies, and histories, which has been translated from Russian to Persian as follows: "Sometimes both the poetic collection of Ferdowsi and the prose collection of Abu al-Muwid Balkhi are mentioned together as if they are being compared. In pre-Islamic Iran, in addition to the Parsi history, which Abu Rayhan attributes the beginning and end of its order to Zoroaster, the prophet of the Persians, there was a history among the peasants and farmers of Iran for had no connection, and since I did not have access to those two sources, I sought recourse and quoted them according to his words, which have always been reliable for researchers in the transmission of narrations; whereas I myself had another version with slight differences of this very narration at my disposal, a narration that the Tehran Khawar print edition confirms based on the existence of a fourth manuscript of it. The late Seyyed Hassan Taqizadeh, as far as I remember, was one of the pioneers in the work of investigation and research regarding Ferdowsi and the Shahnameh, whose work drew from the efforts of famous Orientalists such as Moel and Nolde, and once again presented them based on their original sources from histories, biographies, and manuscript versions of the Shahnameh; and if he found any discrepancy among them, he engaged in mentioning, discussing, criticizing, and resolving it.