Culture | Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, On the Creation of the World, Part 1
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🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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In this lesson, we begin our discussion of the section of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh called “On the Creation of the World” with Dr. Omid Arabian. We begin with a discussion of just the first two lines (the first two rhyming couplets).
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| 0:00.0 | Learn Persian with Chaiang Conversation. |
| 0:02.4 | Shah Name on the creation of the world, part one with Omid Arabian. Thank you so much. |
| 0:36.9 | Salam, Omit Jan. Salam Lilajan. |
| 0:38.1 | Thank you so much for joining me on another journey. |
| 0:41.7 | It's my pleasure and honor always. |
| 0:44.3 | And today, so we're going to be covering the story on the creation of the world from the Shah Nome. |
| 0:51.3 | In case you haven't seen Omid on our program before, he's a frequent guest |
| 0:55.7 | on the show, but if you have not seen him before, can you give a brief introduction on who you |
| 1:00.1 | are and what you do? Sure, sure. My name is Obidana Beyond, and mainly what I do is I conduct |
| 1:05.9 | classes and workshops at our center, which is called Universal Center, Y-O-U Universal, and most of them are |
| 1:14.0 | online, some of them are in person. And we focus mainly on mysticism and particularly on Iranian |
| 1:21.7 | mysticism, although we also read and discuss other works of other mystics and philosophers |
| 1:27.0 | from the West as well. But mainly we |
| 1:29.5 | focus on what we call the three pillars, which are Rumi-Hof-Azanferdozi. And we read their texts to try |
| 1:36.8 | to understand their worldview and just kind of the wisdom that they are trying to kind of pass on to us |
| 1:43.4 | and how we can use that by in enriching |
| 1:46.2 | our own lives. |
| 1:47.3 | Ah, so why is that the three pillars? |
| 1:49.4 | So you don't include Attar, who we did last time in three pillars? |
| 1:53.3 | Of course. |
| 1:54.3 | Of course. |
| 1:55.5 | No, I was just talking about kind of the ones that people know the most and the ones that we |
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