Editing Shahnameh (section)

=== Persian historiography ===
The ''Shahnameh''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s impact on Persian historiography was immediate, and some historians decorated their books with the verses of Shahnameh. Below is sample of ten important historians who have praised the ''Shahnameh'' and Ferdowsi:<ref name="Nurian 1993" />

# The unknown writer of the ''Tarikh Sistan'' ("History of [[Sistan]]") written around 1053
# The unknown writer of ''[[Majmal al-tawarikh|Majmal al-Tawarikh wa Al-Qasas]]'' ({{Circa|1126}})
# Mohammad Ali Ravandi, the writer of the ''Rahat al-Sodur wa Ayat al-Sorur'' ({{Circa|1206}})
# [[Ibn Bibi]], the writer of the history book, ''Al-Awamir al-'Alaiyah'', written during the era of [[Kayqubad I|'Ala ad-din KayGhobad]]
# Ibn Esfandyar, the writer of the ''Tarikh-e Tabarestan''
# [[Ata al-Mulk Juvayni|Muhammad Juwayni]], the early historian of the Mongol era in the ''Tarikh-e Jahan Gushay'' ([[Ilkhanid]] era)
# [[Hamdollah Mostowfi|Hamdollah Mostowfi Qazwini]] also paid much attention to the ''Shahnameh'' and wrote the ''[[Zafarnamah (Mustawfi)|Zafarnamah]]'' based on the same style in the Ilkhanid era
# [[Hafiz-i Abru|Hafez-e Abru]] (1430) in the ''Majma' al-Tawarikh''
# [[Muhammad Khwandamir|Khwand Mir]] in the ''[[Habib al-Siyar|Habab al-Siyar]]'' ({{Circa|1523}}) praised Ferdowsi and gave an extensive biography on Ferdowsi
# The Arab historian [[Ibn Athir]] remarks in his book, ''[[The Complete History|Al-Kamil]]'', that, "If we name it the Quran of ''<nowiki/>'Ajam'' [i.e., Persians], we have not said something in vain. If a poet writes poetry and the poems have many verses, or if someone writes many compositions, it will always be the case that some of their writings might not be excellent. But in the case of the ''Shahnameh'', despite having more than 40 thousand couplets, all its verses are excellent."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.qudsdaily.com/archive/1384/html/2/1384-02-25/page2.html |title=QudsDaily |access-date=2007-08-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928025851/http://www.qudsdaily.com/archive/1384/html/2/1384-02-25/page2.html |archive-date=2007-09-28 }}</ref>