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خردنامه اسکندری / Kheradnameye Eskandari (The Book of Alexandrian Wisdom)

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خردنامه اسکندری (Kheradnameye Eskandari, The Book of Alexandrian Wisdom) is the seventh and final masnavi of Jami's Haft Awrang. Framed around the life, campaigns, and death of Sikandar (Alexander), it uses his story as a vehicle for philosophical and ethical wisdom. A central sequence at Alexander's death consists of the laments (ندبه) of seven sages followed by their condolences (تعزیت) offered to his mother. Individual numbered sections (بخش) — such as Section 70, the third sage's condolence — are subdivisions of this book, not of Haft Awrang as a whole.

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