Culture | Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, The Story of Zahhak, Part 1
About this episode
The episode discusses the Tale of Zahhak from Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, starting with the end of Jamshid's story and Zahhak's rise as an evil king.
In this lesson, we begin our discussion of the famous Tale of Zahhak from Ferdowsi's Shahnameh with Dr. Sahba Shayani. We use the end of the story of Jamshid as a prelude and begin to learn of how Zahhak becomes an evil king.
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