'''Kurdish ''Shahnameh''''' is a collection of [[epic poem]]s that has been passed from mouth to mouth, as part of [[Kurdish literature|Kurdish]] oral tradition.<ref>{{cite web| title = Shahnameh in the Kurdish and Armenian oral tradition| url = http://english.paniranist.org/famousiranian/shahnamehkurdarmenia.pdf| url-status = dead| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304070143/http://english.paniranist.org/famousiranian/shahnamehkurdarmenia.pdf| archivedate = 2016-03-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = Taq Wesan, Kurdish Shahnameh| url = http://www.taqwesan.com/?p=4286}}</ref> The Kurdish poet [[Sarhang Almas Khan]] collected and wrote most of the Kurdish ''Shahnameh'' in the eighteenth century. However, older manuscripts of the Kurdish ''Shahnameh'' are available.<ref>{{cite web | title = Kurd Press; Kurdish Shahnameh to be collected | url = http://www.kurdpress.com/En/NSite/FullStory/News/?Id=6302 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150505040606/http://www.kurdpress.com/En/NSite/FullStory/News/?Id=6302 | archivedate = 2015-05-05 }}</ref> There are several differences between the Kurdish ''Shahnameh'' and [[Shahnameh|Ferdowsi's ''Shahnameh'']], notably the poems of the former are written in [[Kurdish language|Kurdish]] rather than [[Persian language|Persian]] and there are several characters that are not mentioned in Ferdowsi's ''Shahnameh''. [[Shahram Nazeri]] has sung several verses of the Kurdish ''Shahnameh'' in [[Avaze Asatir]].