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'''Abu l-Qāsim Ḥasan Manṣūr''', known as '''Abu l-Qāsim Ferdowsi''' (Persian: {{ia|ابوالقاسم فردوسی}}), (b. [[329]]/941 — d. [[411]]/1020) was an Iranian poet and epicist of 4th/[[10th]] century. He was born in Pāj, a village in [[Khorasan]]. One of his famous works is [[Shahnameh]] (Book of Kings), in which the lives of the kings of [[Iran]] are narrated in poems. Historians have reported that he spent all his wealth in this way, but his effort was not accepted by [[Mahmud of Ghazni]] and some sources considered it because of the religious opposition between Ferdowsi and Mahmud of Ghazni. [[Sayyid Hasan Amin]] considered Ferdowsi's approach in composing Shahnameh, adopted from the [[Qur'an]]'s method. About Ferdowsi's religion, different views have been mentioned. [['Abd al-Jalil Qazwini]] was the first person who introduced Ferdowsi [[Shi'a]] in his book ''[[al-Naqd]]''.

Abu l-Qasim Hasan Mansur known as Abu l-Qasim Ferdowsi was an Iranian poet and epicist in 4th/10th century. The date of his birth has been considered 329/941 or 330/942.

Ferdowsi was son of a peasant born in Pāj, a village of [[Tus]]. He also had journeys to [[Baghdad]] and [[Mazandaran]]. According to Nizami 'Aruzi, Ferdowsi was rich, but gradually spent his wealth and time for composing Shahnameh and toward the end of his life, he became poor and finally passed away in 411/1020 at the age of 80 in his birth town.

[['Abd al-Jalil al-Qazwini]] was the first person who mentioned in ''al-Naqd'' that Ferdowsi was [[Imami|Imami Shi'a]]. Later, [[Qadi Nur Allah al-Shushtari]] too introduced him as Shi'a. However, some people such as Ibrahim Purdavud and his student, Muhammad Mo'in considered him Zoroastrian and [[Malik al-Shuʿara Bahar]] too considered him the reviver of Zoroastrian.

One of the notable works of Ferdowsi is Shahnameh. Sayyid Hasan Amin claimed that the manner of Shahnameh in composing poems is adopted from the Qur'an, while the eloquence of the Qur'an is higher. In Shahnameh, Ferdowsi has frequently spoken about culture and sought to link between the culture of [[Iran]] before and after [[Islam]].

Some people did not consider composition of Iranian national epics, an invention by Ferdowsi and considered others such as Mas'udi Marvzi and Daqiqi Tusi prior to him in that. It is reported that when Ferdowsi was 40 years old, it was several years since Daqiqi, the Iranian poet had begun narrating the Iranian national history in poems, but he was killed by his servant before he could finish it.

In Shahnameh, Ferdowsi has poems about the [[Ahl al-Bayt (a)]], especially [[Imam Ali (a)]], including that,

Toward the end of his life, when Ferdowsi lost his supports for continuing Shahnameh, as reported in the history, he decided to dedicate it to [[Mahmud of Ghazni]]; but, due to different reasons, it was not accepted by him including the ones below,

Different works in painting, miniature and other works including the movie titled as "Fedowsi" produced by 'Abdolhossein Sepenta, a play called Dibacheh-ye Novin-e Shahnameh written by Bahram Beyzai were all inspired by the poems of Ferdowsi.