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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.
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.
The Iskandarnameh (Book of Alexander) is a poetic production in the Alexander Romance tradition authored by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi (d. 1209) that describes Alexander the Great as an idealized hero, sage, and king.
Sikandar Hayat Khan (1892–1942), politician in British India; Sikandar Abu Zafar (1918–1975), Bangladeshi journalist and poet; Sikander Bakht (1918–2004), Indian politician
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 ...
According to Iskandar, the characteristics for the elements are as follows: Wood : Represents new beginnings, growth, vision, community spirit and creativity; the element of spring.
He is known as al-Iskandar al-Makduni al-Yunani [4] ("Alexander the Macedonian Greek") in Arabic, אלכסנדר מוקדון, Alexander Mokdon in Hebrew, and Tre-Qarnayia in Aramaic (the two-horned one, apparently due to an image on coins minted during his rule that seemingly depicted him with the two ram's horns of the Egyptian god Ammon ...
The beauty of this Coca-Cola ad is that it showed a different side of 'Mean' Joe Greene, a defensive tackle on the Pittsburgh Steelers from 1969 to 1981 who earned his name by being a tough player ...