Firdawsi

Type Figure Region Persia Time c. 940–1020 Also known as Ferdowsi、Firdawsi、Abu'l-Qasim Firdawsi、فردوسی

Persian epic poet who spent over thirty years composing the Shahnameh, systematically organizing Iranian myth and historical legend from antiquity to…

Timeline

c. 940–970Tus · KhorasanBorn into a landowning family near Tus in Khorasan, he received training in traditional Persian literature and historiography, laying the linguistic and material foundation for his later epic.
970–1010Tus · KhorasanInvited by the Samanid and Ghaznavid courts, he wrote the Shahnameh in New Persian, gathering the legends and history of Iranian kings, completing some 60,000 couplets over about thirty-five years.
1010–1020Tus · KhorasanAfter completing the Shahnameh he received Mahmud's favor; he spent his later years in his native Tus and was buried there, his tomb becoming a shrine of Persian literature.

Sources

Ferdowsi | Persian Poet https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ferdowsi
The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 4 — R. N. Frye et al. (1975)