How long does it take to read Shahnameh?
Shahnameh by Ferdowsi takes about 17 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
About 17 hours 1 minute
A long haul
First published 1993. 928 pages, about 255,200 words.
35 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 28 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 17 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 10 hours 38 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Shahnameh is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran. It is considered as one of the greatest Persian epics.
Subjects: POETRY / Middle Eastern, POETRY / Ancient, Classical & Medieval, POETRY / Epic, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Persian Epic poetry, Poetry
