Khwaday-Namag

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Khwaday-Namag was a lost Middle Persian royal chronicle of pre-Islamic Iran that compiled legendary and historical accounts of Persian kings and served as a key source for later works like Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Khwaday-Namag canonical 3
Xwadāy-Nāmag 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Middle Persian text ⓘ
historical chronicle ⓘ
lost literary work ⓘ
royal chronicle ⓘ
source text for the Shahnameh ⓘ
alternativeName Khwadāy-Nāmag ⓘ
Xwadāy-Nāmag ⓘ
linked to: Khwaday-Namag
associatedDynasty Sasanian dynasty ⓘ
linked to: Sasanian Empire
compiledIn late Sasanian period ⓘ
contains genealogies of Persian kings ⓘ
historical accounts ⓘ
legendary narratives ⓘ
countryOfOrigin Sasanian Empire ⓘ
culture pre-Islamic Iran ⓘ
extantStatus survives only in later translations and adaptations ⓘ
genre historiography ⓘ
legendary history ⓘ
royal chronicle ⓘ
historicalSignificance major source for later Islamic-era narratives of pre-Islamic Iran ⓘ
influenced Arabic historical works on Persian kings ⓘ
Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh ⓘ
linked to: Shahnameh

Persian epic tradition ⓘ
influencedBy oral epic traditions of Iran ⓘ
keyRoleIn formation of Iranian national epic ⓘ
language Middle Persian ⓘ
literaryTradition Middle Persian prose ⓘ
originalLanguage Middle Persian ⓘ
preservedThrough Arabic translations ⓘ
New Persian adaptations ⓘ
primaryFunction legitimation of royal authority ⓘ
region Iran ⓘ
religiousContext Zoroastrianism ⓘ
scholarlyDebate exact contents and structure are uncertain ⓘ
script Pahlavi script ⓘ
status lost work ⓘ
subject Iranian national history ⓘ
Persian kings ⓘ
Sasanian royal ideology ⓘ
timePeriodCovered Achaemenid period ⓘ
Parthian period ⓘ
Sasanian period ⓘ
linked to: Sasanian Empire

legendary kings of Iran ⓘ
titleMeaning Book of Lords ⓘ
typeOfWork court-sponsored historiography ⓘ
usedAsSourceBy Ferdowsi ⓘ
Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ ⓘ
linked to: Ibn al-Muqaffa'

al-Tabari ⓘ
linked to: Al-Tabari

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Shahnameh → basedOn → Khwaday-Namag ⓘ
Khwaday-Namag → alternativeName → Xwadāy-Nāmag ⓘ
linked to: Khwaday-Namag
Book of Lords → titleInEnglish → Khwaday-Namag ⓘ
Book of Lords → originalTitle → Khwaday-Namag ⓘ
Khwadāy-Nāmag → titleTransliterationVariant → Xwadāy-Nāmag ⓘ
linked to: Khwaday-Namag