Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh as Zurkhaneh Music

Pahlavani ritual ceremony music and recitations by Morshed Alireza Hojjatti. In this beautiful album Morshed Bozorg (Grandmaster) Hojjatti recites excerpts of Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh (Epic of Kings).

Ferdowsi was a Persian poet and the author of Shahnameh (Epic of Kings), which is one of the world’s longest epic poems created by a single poet, and the national epic of Greater Iran. Ferdowsi is celebrated as one of the most influential figures of Persian literature and one of the greatest in the history of literature.

Morshed (Guru) Alireza Hojjatti is considered by many to be Iran’s present day most prominent Morshed.

Playlist (MP3 Audio):

01 Sang (Shields)
02 Shena (Push-ups)
03 Narmesh (Callisthenics)
04 Meel (Persian clubs)
05 Pa Zadan (Cardio aerobics)
06 Kabbadeh (Steel bow)