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Ebrahim Ranjbar. PH.D
Abstract:
Shah-Nameh, a work enjoying wisdom and epic, belongs to an era which observed the richest cross-cultural events of the Eastern and Western cultures. In this work, wisdom, mythology, epic and history are so deeply intermingled within each other that an admirable masterpiece is created. Ferdowsi’s wisdom and insight can be realized through the stories in Shah-Nameh; added to the clear and frank advices conveyed at the end of stories. Some of these stories are related to Afrasiab’s wars. In Shah-Nameh Afrasiab virtually represents two potentially inherited evil forces in the nature of mankind; anger and lust.
Afrasiab has a bad and evil image in mythological and historical works. Whether for this reason, or whether because Ferdowsi has exaggerated his evilness and badness in portraying his character, in Shah-Nameh he is the most evil character who starts out the greatest war against Iran. This research intends to show how he is the representative of anger and lust. For this purpose Afrasiab’s image, in historical and mythological texts and also in Shah-Nameh, are compared and his words and manners and behaviors, which is associated with evilness and corruption in relation to his hostility against Iran, is surveyed in Shah-Nameh.
 

Keywords: Afrasiab’s image, Shah-Nameh, Ferdowsi, myth and

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