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Culture | Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, On the Creation of the World, Part 1

Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation

Chai & Conversation

Iran, Conversation, Persian, Chai, Language Learning, Farsi, Courses, Education

4.9548 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

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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0:02.4

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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