Stories of the Devil Who Deceived Alexander and Iskendername Literature

Name: Stories of the Devil Who Deceived Alexander and Iskendername Literature
Author: KOCAER, Sibel, Bor, İbrahim

Title	Stories of the Devil Who Deceived Alexander and Iskendername Literature
Author	KOCAER, Sibel, Bor, İbrahim
Type	Book
Language	ara,eng,tur
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Library:	Royal Danish Library
Library Asset ID	ISSN: 1309-6087, EISSN: 2459-0711, DOI: 10.19059/mukaddime.913737
Record ID	cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_81e59d5218064872b214fad542e95d6c
Library Location	EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text
Notes	Stories about Alexander are among the most well-known common stories circulating among different languages of the ages when literary traditions were shaped through manuscripts. These stories have spread to different geographies by being copied, translated into various languages, reconstructed, written and transmitted orally for centuries. The focus of this article is Hamzavi's İskendername. Although the narrative part is mostly written in prose, this Iskendername, which is defined as a mixed prose and verse work because it contains many verse parts, is a voluminous work consisting of many volumes. The copy examined within the scope of this article is the copy with archive number Or 11056 and copy date 1435/36 (839) in the British Library (London). The subject of this article is the stories of Alexander's encounter with the devil, which are repeated many times in the British Library copy. These interconnected stories, in which the devil appears before Alexander in different forms and deceives him, draw attention both because they do not appear in other Turkish Iskendernames and because they add different features to Alexander's portrait. The presence of these stories in two separate Alexander biographies written in Arabic and Malay, which were in circulation in the fifteenth century, indicates the textual ties between these three copies belonging to three different languages and cultures. For this reason, the portrait of Alexander, shaped by Hamzavi with a different style and content from Firdevsî, Nizâmî and Ahmedî, contains important clues for defining the İskendername tradition in Anatolia with its unique features and for tracing the textual ties between Alexander biographies in different languages.
Görüntüle	Mukaddime, 2021-11, Vol.12 (2), p.412-434

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Stories of the Devil Who Deceived Alexander and Iskendername Literature

Author KOCAER, Sibel, Bor, İbrahim

Type Book

Language ara,eng,tur

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Library Royal Danish Library

Library Asset ID ISSN: 1309-6087, EISSN: 2459-0711, DOI: 10.19059/mukaddime.913737

Record ID cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_81e59d5218064872b214fad542e95d6c

Library Location EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text

Notes Stories about Alexander are among the most well-known common stories circulating among different languages of the ages when literary traditions were shaped through manuscripts. These stories have spread to different geographies by being copied, translated into various languages, reconstructed, written and transmitted orally for centuries. The focus of this article is Hamzavi's İskendername. Although the narrative part is mostly written in prose, this Iskendername, which is defined as a mixed prose and verse work because it contains many verse parts, is a voluminous work consisting of many volumes. The copy examined within the scope of this article is the copy with archive number Or 11056 and copy date 1435/36 (839) in the British Library (London). The subject of this article is the stories of Alexander's encounter with the devil, which are repeated many times in the British Library copy. These interconnected stories, in which the devil appears before Alexander in different forms and deceives him, draw attention both because they do not appear in other Turkish Iskendernames and because they add different features to Alexander's portrait. The presence of these stories in two separate Alexander biographies written in Arabic and Malay, which were in circulation in the fifteenth century, indicates the textual ties between these three copies belonging to three different languages and cultures. For this reason, the portrait of Alexander, shaped by Hamzavi with a different style and content from Firdevsî, Nizâmî and Ahmedî, contains important clues for defining the İskendername tradition in Anatolia with its unique features and for tracing the textual ties between Alexander biographies in different languages.

Görüntüle Mukaddime, 2021-11, Vol.12 (2), p.412-434