page_title: Ferdowsi millennial celebration
section_title: Scholarly publications related to the millennial
hierarchical_section_title: Ferdowsi millennial celebration / Scholarly publications related to the millennial
caption_attribution_description: فارسی: بلیت بخت‌آزمایی برای تكمیل ساختمان آرامگاه و تجلیل جشن هزار ساله فردوسی، اولین بلیط بخت آزمایی ایران که متعلق به ۸۰ سال پیش است. روی این بلیت، تصویری از آرامگاه فردوسی و شعری از این شاعر چاپ شده است.
context_page_description: The Ferdowsi millennial celebration was a series of celebrations and scholarly events in the year 1934 to commemorate the thousandth anniversary of Ferdowsi's birth. The Ferdowsi millennial was held at the initiative of Reza Shah Pahlavi and was announced at the beginning of the year by the government of Iran. The Millennial Congress convened for five days, from 2 to 6 October 1934, in Tehran, and more than eighty notable European and Iranian scholars attended the congress. The celebrations lasted for nearly a month.
  Various official ceremonies were held simultaneously in a number of European countries including France, Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union, in universities, clubs, and embassies. Also, a number of other countries, including the United States, Egypt and Iraq, held festivities.
context_section_description: An important outcome of the Ferdowsi millennial was the publication of a large number of scholarly works dedicated to the study of Ferdowsi and the Shahnameh, notably:
  Mohammad Ramazani published the Shahnameh (based on Macan's edition) a year before the millennial (Tehran, in five volumes).
  Sayf Azad edited and published the Shahnameh and illustrated it with pictures of ancient kings inspired by Achaemenid and Sasanian sculptures (4 vols., Berlin, 1934–1935).
  Henri Massé's Firdausi et l'épopée nationale (Paris, 1934)
  Mohammad-Taqi Bahar's collected articles on Ferdowsi's life and works and the chronology of the Shahnameh, in a special issue of Bāḵtar monthly (Isfahan, 1934)
  A collection of papers presented by various Persian scholars to the congress in Ferdowsī-nāma-ye Mehr (Tehran, 1934)
  A collection by Armenian scholars in Yerevan under the title Firdusi Žolovacus (Ferdowsī celebration)
  A collection by Soviet scholars titled Ferdovsi (Moscow, 1934)
  Firdausi Celebration (New York, 1934), a collection of articles that included a catalog of the principal manuscripts of the Shahnameh then known.
  The 1935 volume of the French periodical Journal Asiatique, devoted to Ferdowsi
  A special commemorative issue of Īrān-e Bāstān (Berlin, 1936) by Sayf Āzād.
  A collection of 33 papers read by the participants in the congress, under the title Ketāb-e hazāra-ye Ferdowsī (Tehran, 1943)
caption: One of the first tickets sold for the celebration clearly shows the layering structure of the tomb
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