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100 0 Niẓāmī Ganjavī,|d1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203,|0https://
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240 10 |6880-01|aIskandarnāmah.|lEnglish|0https://id.loc.gov/
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245 14 The Persian Alexander :|bthe first complete English
translation of the Iskandarnāma /|ctranslated and
annotated by Evangelos Venetis.
264 1 London :|bI.B. Tauris,|c2018.
264 4 |c©2018
300 1 online resource (x, 381 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of
plates) :|billustrations (chiefly color), color map.
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
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490 1 ILIS ;|v69
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-375) and
index.
520 Alexander the Great (356-333 BC) was to capture the
imagination of his contemporaries and future generations.
His image abounds in various cultures and literatures -
Eastern and Western - and spread around the globe through
oral and literary media at an astonishing rate during late
antiquity and the early Islamic period. The first
Iskandarnama, or 'The Book of Alexander', now held in a
private collection in Tehran, is the oldest prose version
of the Alexander romance in the Persian tradition. Thought
to have been written at some point between the eleventh
and fourteenth centuries by an unknown author, the lively
narrative recasts Alexander as Iskandar, a Muslim champion
- a king and prophet, albeit flawed but heroic, and
remarkably appropriated to Islam, though the historic
Alexander lived and died some 1,000 years before the birth
of the faith. This new English translation of the under-
studied text is the first to be presented unabridged and
sheds fresh light onto the shape and structure of this
vital document.In so doing it invites a reconsideration of
the transformation of a Western historical figure - and
one-time mortal enemy of Persia - into a legendary hero
adopted by Iranian historiographic myth-making.0Evangelos
Venetis, the translator, also offers a textual analysis,
providing much-needed context and explanations on both
content and subsequent reception. This landmark
publication will be invaluable to students and scholars of
classical Persian literature, ancient and medieval history
and Middle East studies, as well as to anyone studying the
Alexander tradition.
546 Translated from the Persian.
588 0 Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed
May 6, 2019).
590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic
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600 00 Alexander,|cthe Great,|d356 B.C.-323 B.C.|0https://
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600 07 Alexander,|cthe Great,|d356 B.C.-323 B.C.|2fast|0https://
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650 0 Epic literature, Persian.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
subjects/sh85044293
650 7 Epic literature, Persian.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/
fast/913764
655 4 Electronic books.
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700 1 Venetēs, Euangelos,|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
n2014031167|etranslator,|eeditor.
830 0 International library of Iranian studies ;|0https://
id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2004086196|v69.
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db=nlebk&AN=2112902|zOnline ebook via EBSCO. Access
restricted to current Rider University students, faculty,
and staff.
856 42 |3Instructions for reading/downloading the EBSCO version
of this ebook|uhttp://guides.rider.edu/ebooks/ebsco
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