- The
Iskandarnameh (or Iskandarnamah, Iskandarnama ; "Book of Alexander"), not to be
confused with the
Iskandarnameh of Nizami, is the
oldest Persian recension...
- The
Iskandarnameh (Book of Alexander) is a
poetic production in the
Alexander Romance tradition aut****d by the
Persian poet
Nizami Ganjavi (d. 1209)...
- to
Alexander the Great, it was
transmitted through works such as the
Iskandarnameh and the Sirr al-Asrar, and
became a po****r name for
rulers in the medieval...
-
under the
influence of the
Alexander Romance (in Persian: اسکندرنامه
Iskandarnameh), a more
positive portrayal of
Alexander emerges. Firdausi's Shahnameh...
- narrative. The
Iskandarnameh (Book of Alexander), an
anonymous text
dated to
between the
eleventh and
twelfth centuries. The
Iskandarnameh of
Nizami Ganjavi...
- in
composing Iskandarnameh.
Nizami constantly alludes to the
Shahnameh in his writing,
especially in the
prologue to the
Iskandarnameh. It
seems that...
-
works owing much to the Shahnameh.
These include the
anonymous Iskandarnameh, the
Iskandarnameh of Nizami, the Ayina-i
Iskandari of Amir Khusrau, and others...
-
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...
-
influenced by
earlier Persian compositions about Alexander,
including the
Iskandarnameh of
Nizami Ganjavi and even
moreso an
earlier text of the same name,...
-
anonymous work
entitled the
Iskandarnameh,
likely dating to the
eleventh century.
Nizami Ganjavi would then
compose his own
Iskandarnameh under significant influence...
