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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.
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 ...
Iskandar (name) or Eskandar also Iskander, Skandar, or Scandar is a given name and a surname. Iskandar or Eskandar or their varieties may also refer to: Places
In Arabic the confusion is generally with non-Arabic words beginning in "al-" (al is Arabic for "the"). Alexander the Great has been interpreted in Arabic as Iskandar ; by extension: Greek Alexandreia ( Alexandria ) taken for al Exandreia (and thus Al-Iskandariyah ; this is also an example of metathesis ).
The Iskandarnameh (or Iskandarnamah, Iskandarnama ; "Book of Alexander"), not to be confused with the Iskandarnameh of Nizami, [1] [2] is the oldest Persian recension of the Alexander Romance tradition, anonymous and dated to some time between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries, although recently its compilation has been placed in the eleventh century by Evangelos Venetis, during the reign ...
A large portion of the text is dedicated to conveying a world history, with the last and most important chapter (entitled the Tevârîh-i Mülûk-i âl-i ʿOsmân / Dastan ve Tevarihi Ali Osman / Dastan; "History of the Rulers of the House of Osman and Their Campaigns Against the Infidels") on the subject of the history of the Ottoman dynasty from Ertuğrul (father of the Osman I, founder of ...