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Iskandar, Iskander, Skander, Askander, Eskinder, or Scandar (Arabic: إسكندر; Persian: اسکندر Eskandar or سکندر Skandar), is a variant of the given name Alexander in cultures such as Iran (Persia), Arabia and others throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Southeast Asia, Caucasus and Central Asia.
The Qiṣṣat al-Iskandar (fully the Qiṣṣat al-Iskandar wa-mā fīhā min al-amr al-ʿadjīb, or "The story of Alexander and the wonderful things it contains") is the earliest narrative of Alexander the Great in the tradition of the Alexander Romance genre in the Arabic language.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Persian Iskandar and Arabic Al-Iskandar, ... Pokorny notes the word "skan-do", meaning "land laying in waste" (that is ...
The Sīrat al-Iskandar (Life of Alexander) is a 13th-century popular Arabic-language romance about Alexander the Great. It belongs to the sīra shaʿbiyya genre. [ 9 ] In the Sīrat , Alexander is a son of Dārāb, a prince of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, and Nāhīd, daughter of King Philip II of Macedon .
Dhu al-Qarnayn, (Arabic: ذُو ٱلْقَرْنَيْن, romanized: Dhū l-Qarnayn, IPA: [ðu‿l.qarˈnajn]; lit. "The Owner of Two-Horns" [ 1 ] ) is a leader who appears in the Qur'an , Surah al-Kahf (18) , Ayahs 83–101, as one who travels to the east and west and sets up a barrier between a certain people and Gog and Magog ( Arabic ...
Hikayat (Jawi: حكاية; Gurmukhi: ਹਿਕਾਇਤਾ, romanized: Hikā'itā) is an Arabic word that literally translates to "stories" and is a form of Malay and Sikh literature. This article presents a list of hikayat from various time periods.
The Sīrat al-Iskandar (Arabic: سيرة الإسكندر, 'Life of Alexander') [1] is a 13th-century Arabic popular romance about Alexander the Great. It belongs to the sīra shaʿbiyya genre [2] and was composed by Mufarrij al-Ṣūrī in the 15th century. [3] [4] [5] The Sīrat is likely the ultimate source of the Malay Hikayat Iskandar ...
The Hikayat Aceh is a 17th-century history of the Aceh Sultanate, which is located on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra, Indonesia.Written in Malay in the Arabic script it chronicles and eulogizes the Acehnese Sultan Iskandar Muda (1583–1636; reigned 1607–1636; national hero of Indonesia since 1993).