Editing Simurgh (section)

==In popular culture==
*[[Ambrose Bierce]]'s ''[[The Devil's Dictionary]]'' (1906) characterizes the Simurgh as "omnipotent on condition that it do nothing" and likens it to the role of the [[hoi polloi|rabble]] in a [[republic]].<ref>[http://dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=devil&Query=Rabble "Rabble" entry in ''The Devil's Dictionary''] at [[Dict.org]]</ref>
*The title of [[Salman Rushdie]]'s first novel, ''[[Grimus]]'' (1975), is an anagram of Simurg.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9788126906307/Salman-Rushdie-Critical-Essays-Vol-8126906308/plp|title=Salman Rushdie: Critical Essays Vol. 1|publisher=Atlantic Publishers}} Page v</ref>
*Simurgh is the name of a proxy tool introduced in 2009 that helps residents of Iran avoid [[Internet censorship in Iran|government censorship of websites]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18263058|title=Trojan targets Iranian and Syrian dissidents via proxy tool|work=BBC News|date=30 May 2012|access-date=21 December 2020}}</ref>
* The [[Crystal Simorgh]] is an award given by [[Fajr International Film Festival]].
* The Simorgh is one of the creatures encountered by the protagonists in the 2006 movie [[Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest]].
* The Simurgh is the name of one of the Endbringers in the 2011 [[Worm (web serial)]].
* In the Yugioh card game, Simorgh is the boss monster of its own archetype.
* A Simurgh card from a fictional collectible card game serves as a major plot device in the sci-fi novel ''Entanglement'', by Gibson Monk.
*A simurgh appeared in chapter 49 of the manga [[Delicious in Dungeon]] as Laios contemplates various bird-like monsters. It is shown large enough to hold an elephant in its talons.
*The Simurgh is featured in [[Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown]], a 2024 video game in which it indirectly grants the player character various time-manipulation powers used to progress in the game.
*In her poem "Garden Simurgh", [[Kathleen Raine]] describes how 'I hung out nuts for the blue-tits but the sparrows came, / All thirty of them / With a flurry of wings, / One mind in thirty vociferous selves...' eventually concluding that no 'wonder-bird' should be deemed 'more miraculous' than these 'two-a-farthing sparrows / Each feather bearing the carelessly-worn signature / Of the universe'. <ref>{{Cite book |last=Raine |first=Kathleen |author-link=Kathleen Raine |title=Collected Poems |publisher=Faber & Faber Ltd |year=2019 |isbn=978-0-571-35202-9 |edition=2nd |location=London |pages=340}}</ref>