Ferdowsi in Rasāil al-‘Ushāq

Ali ibn Ahmad SeyfĪ Neyshabouri’s book “Rasāil al-‘Ushāq wa Wasā’il al-Mushtāq” is the oldest and the first comprehensive manual for writing romantic letters in Persian which includes a collection of samples of letters suitable for the different romantic circumstances. In other words, it is an instruction and several examples for writing romantic letters in which the author has brought one hundred beautiful love letters with Persian prose alongside excellent poems of great poets. Each letter is about a topic. In the present article, the author has introduced and examined the book in details. In Seyfi’s book, we come across poems by Ferdowsi. Therefore, in a part of the article, the author mentions Seyfi’s references to Ferdowsi and, mentions some verses that are not found in the Shahnameh or are different.