The Persian Prose Alexander Romance

ISBN-13: 9783659323515 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 300 str.

Venetis Evangelos

Opis

Alexander the Great is the glorious hero of numerous legends in different eras and cultures. Iranians saw their glorious ancient empire conquered by Alexander and in Islamic times the Iranian view of Alexander turned Alexander to a glorious Muslim champion-a king and prophet, the ideal champion who came to personify the Iranian worldview on various themes, such as love and fate. The image of Muslim Alexander in the Iranian literary and popular tradition forms a substantial part of this book, which analyzes the Iskandarnāma (Book of Alexander), the oldest prose version of the Alexander romance in the Persian tradition (eleventh century AD).

O autorze

Evangelos Venetis holds a PhD in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (Edinburgh University, 2006). He was a Senior Research Associate at the School of Middle Eastern Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands (2006-2010). He is the founder and director of the Society for Hellenic-Iranian Studies.