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خردنامه اسکندری / Kheradnama-ye Eskandari (The Book of Alexander's Wisdom)

خردنامه اسکندری / Kheradnama-ye Eskandari

Kheradnama-ye Eskandari (the Book of Alexander's Wisdom) is the seventh and final masnavi of Jami's Haft Awrang. It is a didactic poem centered on Alexander the Great (Iskandar), interweaving narrative episodes with ethical and philosophical counsel attributed to the Greek sages. Its closing movement stages the death of Alexander and the funerary wisdom of the philosophers: their successive laments (ندبه) and their formal condolences (تعزیت) addressed to the king and his mother. Individual sections such as بخش ۷۱ - تعزیت گفتن حکیم چهارم (the Fourth Sage Offering Condolences), together with the neighboring lament and condolence sections, belong to this masnavi rather than directly to the Haft Awrang collection as a whole.

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