The Shahnameh - A Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition

The most important creation of New Persian literature – the Shahnameh, or the ‘Book of Kings’ – has been defined as the national epic of the Iranian people, their ‘identity card’ (shenas-nameh) and an encyclopaedia of Iranian culture. It celebrates the survival of a civilization that originated some 7,000 years ago at a dynamic crossroads of cultures, the Iranian Plateau, extended at its peak from Anatolia and the Caucasus across Transoxiana to China, withstood countless invasions, absorbed diverse influences, and conquered its conquerors by virtue of its timeless values.

To run locally

• Install Jekyll on your machine following these instructions
• Install Git on your machine following these instructions
• Clone the code for this repository: git clone https://github.com/FitzwilliamMuseum/fitz-shahnameh.git reponame
• Install the gems bundle install
• Change to the directory and then run this command in terminal bundle exec jekyll serve

Credits

Website by @portableant

License

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Contributing guidelines

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