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خردنامه اسکندری / Khiradnama-yi Iskandari (The Book of Alexandrian Wisdom)

خردنامه اسکندری / Khiradnama-yi Iskandari

The seventh and final masnavi of Jami's Haft Awrang, a didactic-philosophical poem built around Alexander the Great (Iskandar). Composed in the tradition of Nizami's Iskandarnama, it frames Sufi ethical counsel through the sayings of Greek sages and direct admonitions to the soul, urging detachment (tajrid), contentment (qana'at), and mindfulness of mortality.

Its numbered sections (بخش) — such as the admonition of the soul bankrupt of obedience — are the individual section-poems that belong under this work, which in turn sits within the larger Haft Awrang collection. This work-level node preserves the structural path Jami -> Haft Awrang -> Khiradnama-yi Iskandari -> Section (بخش).

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