Question

Most scholars have rejected that this author wrote the Genesis-inspired narrative poem Joseph and Zuleika. In a poem by this author, a man fights a wolf, lion, and dragon in an attempt to save his sisters from the Brazen Fortress. This poet's biographer Arudi claimed a well-wisher destroyed all but six lines of a satire he wrote about a sultan. In a poem by this author, a character dangles meat above eagles while on a (*) flying throne to reach heaven. (-5[1])Siyâvash rides (10[1])through a mountain of (10[1])fire to prove (-5[1])Sudabeh (10[2])wrong in a poem by this author, in which the cow-headed (10[1])Fereydun (10[1])defeats King Zahhak. (10[4])That (-5[1])epic by this author, in (10[1])which Zal is raised by the Simurgh, (10[3])discusses the decline (10[1])of the Sassanids (10[1])through the story of (10[1])Rostam and Sohrab. (10[1])For 10 points, name this author (-5[1])who wrote the poem (10[1])Shahnameh, (-5[1])the national epic of Iran. (10[2])■END■ (10[3]0[3])

ANSWER: Ferdowsi [or Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi]
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