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This work is of utmost importance not only as a cultural literary source but also due to the fact that the translation has been accomplished so diligently.-- Alireza Korangy, editor in chief, International Journal of Persian Literature Dick Davis is the most celebrated and accomplished living translator of Persian to English....there is no one more appropriate or prepared to translate Meskoob's analysis of the Shahnameh.-- Franklin Lewis, University of Chicago

This work is of utmost importance not only as a cultural literary source but also due to the fact that the translation has been accomplished so diligently.--Alireza Korangy, coeditor of The Beloved in Middle Eastern Literatures

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Shahrokh Meskoob (1924-2005) was a translator, writer, scholar, and one of the most influential public intellectuals in Iran. He published translations of Sophocles's Antigone and Oedipus Rex, and Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. He is the author of In the Alley of the Friend: On the Poetry of Hafez. Dick Davis is a poet, author, translator, and emeritus professor of Persian at Ohio State University. He is the translator of Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz.

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