Kurdish ''Shahnameh'' or Kurdish Shanama () is a collection of

epic poem In poetry, an epic is a lengthy narrative poem typically about the extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters who, in dealings with gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants. With regard to ...

s that has been passed from mouth to mouth, as part of

Kurdish Kurdish may refer to: *Kurds or Kurdish people *Kurdish language ** Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) **Central Kurdish (Sorani) **Southern Kurdish ** Laki Kurdish *Kurdish alphabets *Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes: **Southern ...

oral tradition. In popular culture, the collection and writing of Shahnama in Gorani is attributed to the Kurdish poet Sarhang Almas Khan in the eighteenth century, but in reality many writers have gathered and written down the text of Shahnama in different locations and times. In fact, older and more recent manuscripts of the Kurdish ''Shahnameh'' are available. There are several differences between the Kurdish ''Shahnameh'' and Ferdowsi's ''Shahnameh'', notably the poems of the former are written in

rather than

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and there are several characters that are not mentioned in Ferdowsi's ''Shahnameh''. Furthermore, the meter of Kurdish Shahnama is syllabic, which is more common in the

Kurdish literature Kurdish literature ( or ) is literature written in the Kurdish languages. Literary Kurdish works have been written in each of the six main Kurdish languages: Zaza language, Zaza, Gorani language, Gorani, Kurmanji, Sorani, Laki language, Laki and S ...

Shahram Nazeri Shahram Nazeri (, ; born 18 February 1950) is a contemporary Iranian tenor of Kurdish origin from Kermanshah, Iran, who sings Sufi music, classical and traditional Kurdish and Persian music. He has been accompanied by some of the masters of Ira ...

has sung several verses of the Kurdish ''Shahnameh'' in Avaze Asatir.

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