LIFE AND SPIRITUAL HERITAGE OF FIRDAUSI

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The article describes the life and spiritual heritage of the great writer Abulkasim Firdausi. His life and work, methodological and ideological origins of the formation of Firdausi as a poet. Ferdowsi is widely regarded as the guardian of the Persian language and pre-Islamic Iranian cultural identity. Of all the peoples conquered by the Arabs in the 7th century, only the Persians can boast of a large literature in the languages of the local peoples before the conquest. Recently, when asked why most Egyptians, heirs of a great pre-Islamic civilization, speak Arabic and not Coptic, an Egyptian historian replied: "Because we did not have Ferdowsi."

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10.37547/supsci-ojhpl-02-04-05

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