Azeri Envoy: Ferdowsi, Shahnameh belong to mankind

Huseynov, who was visiting Ferdowsi mausoleum in Tus city, Khorassan Razavi Province, said there are plenty of commonalties in Iran, Azerbaijan Republic history, culture, literature and characters and added, 'We all should get closer to our cultural roots.'
Referring to translation and publication of Shahnameh in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan Republic, in 1977, Huseynov called for holding Shahnameh Khani ceremony in Azerbaijan Republic and said many Azeri poets quote Shahnameh in their poems.
Bunyad Huseynov is an Iranologist and had studied Persian Language and Literature in Baku.
A Shahnameh Khani ceremony was held in presence of the ambassador and other audiences in the mausoleum.
Abulqasem Ferdowsi Tusi (c. 940–1020), or Ferdowsi, was a Persian poet and the author of Shahnameh ('Book of Kings'), which is the world's longest epic poem created by a single poet, and the national epic of Iran and the Greater Iran. Having drafted the Shahnameh under patronage of the Samanid and the Ghaznavid courts of Iran, Ferdowsi is celebrated as the most influential figure in Persian literature and one of the greatest in the history of literature.
He is widely regarded as the greatest poet in the Persian language. He was called 'The Lord of the Word' and 'The Savior of Persian Language'.
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