• The Iskandarnameh (or Iskandarnamah, Iskandarnama ; "Book of Alexander"), not to be confused with the Iskandarnameh of Nizami, is the oldest Persian recension...
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  • The Iskandarnameh (Book of Alexander) is a poetic production in the Alexander Romance tradition authored by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi (d. 1209)...
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  • to Alexander the Great, it was transmitted through works such as the Iskandarnameh and the Sirr al-Asrar, and became a popular name for rulers in the medieval...
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    under the influence of the Alexander Romance (in Persian: اسکندرنامه Iskandarnameh), a more positive portrayal of Alexander emerges. Firdausi's Shahnameh...
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    narrative. The Iskandarnameh (Book of Alexander), an anonymous text dated to between the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The Iskandarnameh of Nizami Ganjavi...
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    in composing Iskandarnameh. Nizami constantly alludes to the Shahnameh in his writing, especially in the prologue to the Iskandarnameh. It seems that...
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    works owing much to the Shahnameh. These include the anonymous Iskandarnameh, the Iskandarnameh of Nizami, the Ayina-i Iskandari of Amir Khusrau, and others...
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    ("Book of Alexander", such as an anonymous eleventh-century Iskandarnameh and the Iskandarnameh of Nizami), combined the Pseudo-Callisthenes material about...
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    rendition of the Alexander Romance, to Süleyman Çelebi. Modeled after the Iskandarnameh of Neẓāmī, in over 8,000 couplets Ahmedi uses the outline of Alexander...
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  • More specifically, the Sadd-i Iskandari was his version of Nizami's Iskandarnameh, and it was composed in the same meter (mutaqārib) as Nizami's. Nava'i...
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    Romance, especially in that of the Persian version of Nizami Ganjavi's Iskandarnameh. He completed this work perhaps around 1485, and in it he moves the...
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    in composing Iskandarnameh. Nizami constantly alludes to the Shahnameh in his writing, especially in the prologue to the Iskandarnameh. It seems that...
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  • five of his major works), and it was the first response to Nizami's Iskandarnameh. The text expresses a wish for the peace and stability brought about...
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  • focuses on legends of Alexander the Great as recounted in Nizami's Iskandarnameh and ultimately in the tradition of the Alexander Romance genre of literature...
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    who suggested to Ahmedi that he should produce a translation of the Iskandarnameh of the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi. Ahmedi turned the process into his...
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    anonymous work entitled the Iskandarnameh, likely dating to the eleventh century. Nizami Ganjavi would then compose his own Iskandarnameh under significant influence...
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  • influenced by earlier Persian compositions about Alexander, including the Iskandarnameh of Nizami Ganjavi and even moreso an earlier text of the same name,...
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    Dhulqarnayn (Tales of Dhul-Qarnayn) and a Persian variant called the Iskandarnameh [de] (Book of Alexander), as well as Armenian and Ethiopic translations...
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    Shahnameh and Iskandarnameh. The Epistola or material from it entered Ethiopic and Turkish through translations of the Romance and Iskandarnameh, respectively...
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  • Spanish was published in 1929 by E. García Gómez. Horns of Alexander Iskandarnameh Qissat al-Iskandar Casari, Mario (2023). "The Alexander Legend in Persian...
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  • subsequent Alexander romance literature in Persian, including on the Iskandarnameh of Nizami, the Ayina-i Iskandari of Amir Khusrau, and others. Alexander...
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  • Mysteries, Khosrow and Shirin, Layla and Majnun, The Seven Beauties, Iskandarnameh (Book of Alexander) (1968) No. 26. Ali-Shir Nava'i: Wonders of Good...
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  • critical edition of Nizami's works in 1941, a critical text of the Iskandarnameh was published in 1947 in two parts: Sharafnameh, for which Berthels...
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  • Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg: 173-99. Chelkowski, P. "Nezami's Iskandarnameh:"in Colloquio sul poeta persiano Nizami e la leggenda iranica di Alessandro...
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