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...extensively has always sparked much controversy amongst scholars. This ongoing debate focuses on whether the poet relied more (or even thoroughly) on the oral or literary traditions of his time. Yamamoto's book must be seen as an important contribution to this debate, viewing the poem as result of considerable oral influence, though without considering the oral factor as the only source, or as superior to the literary tradition, for Firdawsi's account. Yamamoto highlights the importance of the oral tradition by analyzing both the poem itself and the influence of the Shahnama on the so-called Persian epic cycle, i.e., the epic potential and prose accounts which were produced in subsequent centuries, through a consideration of Abu Mansur 'Ali b. Ahmad Asadi's Garshaspndma (c. 1064-66 C.E.).

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