Iskandarnamah

by Minoo S. Southgate (Contributor)

English, Persian (translation)

237 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1978

Reviews

[Silvio Curtis]

The original of this book is incomplete, and only about a third of it is translated in this abridged version. Alexander goes all over the world with his army, befriending kings if they promise him obedience and convert to Islam and overthrowing them if they don't. It starts out with some resemblance to history: Alexander inherits the kingdom of Rūm, then conquers Īrān and goes on to India. But before you know it, he's fighting against fairies and giants. Important secondary characters include Aristotle the Sage, even further removed then Alexander is from his historical original, and Arāqīt, queen of the fairies.

This is a prose story by an unknown author. Internet sources seem to have it confused with the epic Iskandarnāmah by Nezāmī.