پيشگويي در شاهنامه فردوسي

Foretelling in the Shahnamehʹ of Ferdosi

Foretelling is defined as predicting events in the near or distant future, without considering if it occurs or not, foretelling, one of the more important elements of and epic, occurs very frequently in the Shahnamehʹ . This paper attembts to stndy, analyse and group different kinds of predictions in the " Shahnamehʹ and is written descriptively. The prediction in the Shahnamehʹ are divided into 13 groups as follows: exemption of seeing (27 instainces), omniscient narrator (94 instances), stargazing and astrology (41 instances), dream and dream interpretation (23 instances), supernatural foretelling (24 instances), Foreteling by sage, priest and monk (46 instances), forelelling by princes (157 insteances) foretelling by heroes (180 instances), foretelling by the royal familes (25 instances),foretelling by ordinary peopic (28 instances), auguries (14 instancey), Surmise (15 instsnces), boasting (52 instances), There are altogether 726 instances of prediction in the ʹ Shahnamehʹ of which 106 are false.