Between Two Ancient Cultures: Comparison of the heroes of the Manas Epic and Ferdowsi's Shahnameh

Two works in which this similarity is clearly observed are the world-famous "Manas", the favorite of the Kyrgyz, and the "Shahnameh" of Ferdowsi, which is the leading literary product of Persian nations in the X century.

Since Manas Epic and Shahnameh both carry clues about Turkish-Iranian life, they have an importance beyond discussion in the history of world literature. In this study, the importance of analyzing epics "Manas" and "Shahnameh" in terms of the present-day will be revealed by providing reasons. Epics are the first of these reasons because of their timeliness.

At the moment, as all civilizations arrive at the door of a new era concerning the development of their culture and national identity, it is among these reasons to investigate the experience of the past and the extremely sensitive interest of the two nations of Farsi and Turkic, which are among the leading civilized nations of the world, and globally known in the past and present, to the myth and legend.