Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Іскандэр-намэ" in Belarusian language version.
It contains the didactic poem Maḵzan al-asrār in around 2,260 couplets in sari' meter; three epic romances: Ḵosrow o Širin (q.v.) in around 6,500 couplets in hazaj meter, Leyli o Majnun (q.v.) in around 4,600 couplets in hazaj meter, and Haft peykar (q.v.) in about 5130 couplets in ḵafif meter; and the Eskandar-nāma (qv), which can be regarded as an epic interlaced with didactic observations and consists of two formally separate parts, in all about 10,500 couplets in motaqāreb meter.
ESKANDAR-NĀMA OF NEŻĀMĪ ... The principal episodes of the legend of Alexander, as known to the Muslim tradition, are elaborated in the Šaraf-nāma: the birth of Alexander, his succession to the Macedonian throne, his war against the Negroes who had invaded Egypt, the war with the Persians, ending with the defeat and death of Dārā (see DARIUS III) and Alexander's marriage to Dārā's daughter, his pilgrimage to Mecca.
ESKANDAR-NĀMA OF NEŻĀMĪ ... Neẓāmī then dwells at some length on Alexander's stay in the Caucasus and his visit to Queen Nūšāba of Barda'a (qv; in the immediate neighborhood of Neẓāmī's home town, Ganja) and her court of Amazons ; this lady takes over the role of Candace in earlier versions of the Alexander saga. Alexander then goes to India and China. During his absence the Rūs (i.e., the Russian Vikings) invade the Caucasus and capture Barda'a (as they in fact did some two centuries before Neẓāmī's time) and take Nūšāba prisoner.
ESKANDAR-NĀMA OF NEŻĀMĪ ... Alexander's wars with the Rūs, which are depicted at considerable length, end with his victory and his magnanimous treatment of the defeated army. The Šaraf-nāma concludes with the account of Alexander's unsuccessful search for the water of immortal life.
ESKANDAR-NĀMA OF NEŻĀMĪ ... In the Eqbāl-nāma Alexander, the undisputed ruler of the world, is depicted no longer as a warrior, but as a sage and a prophet. He debates with Greek and Indian philosophers, and a sizeable part of the text is occupied by the discourses in which the seven Greek sages elaborate their ideas about the creation.
ESKANDAR-NĀMA OF NEŻĀMĪ ... But we find also a number of extended parables, of only tangential connection with the Alexander story but exceptionally well told. The poet then tells of Alexander's end and adds an account of the circumstances of the death of each of the seven sages.
Some but by no means all of the manuscripts also insert a chapter, printed as chap. 40, referring to the death of Neẓāmī at the age of sixty-three; it is really astonishing that quite a few modern scholars have considered this to be part of Neẓāmī's text.
Some but by no means all of the manuscripts also insert a chapter, printed as chap. 40, referring to the death of Neẓāmī at the age of sixty-three; it is really astonishing that quite a few modern scholars have considered this to be part of Neẓāmī's text.
It contains the didactic poem Maḵzan al-asrār in around 2,260 couplets in sari' meter; three epic romances: Ḵosrow o Širin (q.v.) in around 6,500 couplets in hazaj meter, Leyli o Majnun (q.v.) in around 4,600 couplets in hazaj meter, and Haft peykar (q.v.) in about 5130 couplets in ḵafif meter; and the Eskandar-nāma (qv), which can be regarded as an epic interlaced with didactic observations and consists of two formally separate parts, in all about 10,500 couplets in motaqāreb meter.
ESKANDAR-NĀMA OF NEŻĀMĪ ... The principal episodes of the legend of Alexander, as known to the Muslim tradition, are elaborated in the Šaraf-nāma: the birth of Alexander, his succession to the Macedonian throne, his war against the Negroes who had invaded Egypt, the war with the Persians, ending with the defeat and death of Dārā (see DARIUS III) and Alexander's marriage to Dārā's daughter, his pilgrimage to Mecca.
ESKANDAR-NĀMA OF NEŻĀMĪ ... Neẓāmī then dwells at some length on Alexander's stay in the Caucasus and his visit to Queen Nūšāba of Barda'a (qv; in the immediate neighborhood of Neẓāmī's home town, Ganja) and her court of Amazons ; this lady takes over the role of Candace in earlier versions of the Alexander saga. Alexander then goes to India and China. During his absence the Rūs (i.e., the Russian Vikings) invade the Caucasus and capture Barda'a (as they in fact did some two centuries before Neẓāmī's time) and take Nūšāba prisoner.
ESKANDAR-NĀMA OF NEŻĀMĪ ... Alexander's wars with the Rūs, which are depicted at considerable length, end with his victory and his magnanimous treatment of the defeated army. The Šaraf-nāma concludes with the account of Alexander's unsuccessful search for the water of immortal life.
ESKANDAR-NĀMA OF NEŻĀMĪ ... In the Eqbāl-nāma Alexander, the undisputed ruler of the world, is depicted no longer as a warrior, but as a sage and a prophet. He debates with Greek and Indian philosophers, and a sizeable part of the text is occupied by the discourses in which the seven Greek sages elaborate their ideas about the creation.
ESKANDAR-NĀMA OF NEŻĀMĪ ... But we find also a number of extended parables, of only tangential connection with the Alexander story but exceptionally well told. The poet then tells of Alexander's end and adds an account of the circumstances of the death of each of the seven sages.
