Samantha Stringer The Shahnameh, completed by the Persian poet Ferdowsi in early eleventh century Iran, is an epic dynastic history of Persia, chronicling the reign of 50 rulers from early civilization to the fall of the Sasanian Empire in the seventh century. Last fall semester, Pepperdine Libraries hired a graduate student intern, Samantha Stringer, to research our copy of the Shahnameh so that Special Collections and Archives could properly catalog the work. Stringer is a PhD candidate in literature at University of California, Santa Cruz, and is researching the Shahnameh for her dissertation.  Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:29:41 -0800 cdcd7460-e5b9-4474-8c8d-9986794d7369