Amir Arsalan

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Amir Arsalan-e Namdar (Persian: امیر ارسلان نامدار) is a popular Persian epic, which was told to Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar, the Qajar Shah of Persia in the 19th century (though the Persian legend itself is much older), by a storyteller named Mohammad Ali Naqib ol-Mamalek (Persian: میرزا محمدعلی نقیب‌الممالک). Mohammad never transcribed the poem himself, but Fachr-ed-Douleh, the daughter of the Shah—who also loved the story—eventually transcribed it and preserved it for posterity.^[1]