• The İskendernâme (Epic of Alexander) is a poem by the Turkish poet Taceddin Ahmedi (1334–1413), completed in the early fifteenth century. It is the first...
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    stream. The earliest work of Ottoman historiography for example, the İskendernâme, was composed by the poet Taceddin Ahmedi (1334–1413). Until the 19th...
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  • gave similar concessions to the Russian Empire. According to Ahmedi's İskendernâme, one of the earliest Ottoman sources, alongside the titles sultan and...
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    Later, the Ottoman Turkish poet Ahmedî [tr] (d. 1413) composed the Iskendername, using the Persian Shahnāma and Nizami's Iskandarnāma [de] as source...
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    qasida to Timur. After Bayezid's death, he dedicated his work titled the Iskendername, the earliest surviving work of Ottoman historiography and the earliest...
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    and is dedicated to Emir Suleyman. The İskendernâme composed by Ahmedi's brother, Hamzavī. The of İskendernâme of Ahmed Redvan, completed in 1499 and...
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  • did exist in other forms of Turkish though, such as Taceddin Ahmedi's Iskendername. The name of Nava'i's work is a reminder of the story of Dhu al-Qarnayn...
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    Shahnameh, the Khamsa of Nizami, containing Layla and Majnun and the Iskendername or Romance of Alexander, Humayunname, animal fables, and anthologies...
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    in Gobu village of Absheron District. "Khosrov and Shirin" (1940), "Iskendername" (1953) watercolors are kept in the National Art Museum of Azerbaijan...
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    written for his son Süleyman Çelebi instead. This work, entitled the İskendernāme, ("The Book of Alexander") was part of a genre known as "mirror for princes"...
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    kept in Istanbul, London, and Paris. The poet Ahmedi first devoted his Iskendername to Suleiman Shah but after his death, added a part about the Ottomans...
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    handwriting in the front page. The manuscript also contains a subtitle İskendernâme ('Book of Alexander the Great'). Both title entries bear witness to European-style...
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    Corvinus (fifteenth century) on-line Oriental languages Or. 90 (= 57): İskendernâme by Taceddin İbrahim bin Hizir Ahmedî, illuminated Ottoman version of...
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    Brenne" (2004) "We Never Know" - romance after Emily Dickinson. (2005) "Iskendername" - ballet after Nizami Ganjavi. 1 2 3 1) Onno van Rijen`s Website on...
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