''Shahnaamah-i-Chitral'' is a lengthy
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 ...
written by
Chitrali poet
Baba Siyar in the 19th century. The lengthy
Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
narrative deals with some serious subject and contains details of heroic deeds and events of cultural and national significance.
See also
*
Tarikh-i-Chitral
*
Nayi Tarikh-i-Chitral
The ''Tarikh-i-Chitral'' is a book compiled and finalized in 1921 by Mirza Muhammad Ghufran on the order of Mehtar Shuja ul-Mulk (r. 1895-1936). It was written in Persian between 1911 and 1919, with its publication following in the year 1921 in ...
References
Manuscripts
Unpublished books
Epic poems in Persian
19th-century books
Chitral (princely state)
19th-century Persian books
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