Editing Shahnameh (section)

=== Alexander legends ===
The ''Shahnameh'' contains the [[Alexander the Great in the Shahnameh|first Persian legend of Alexander the Great]] in the tradition of the [[Alexander Romance]]. Three sections of the ''Shahnameh'' are dedicated to Alexander, running over 2,500 verses in total, and Alexander's life is the work's turning point between mythic and historical rulers of Persia. It also represents a turning point of Persian-language representations of Alexander, from negative in pre-Islamic Zoroastrian writings to positive.<ref>{{Citation |last=Wiesehöfer |first=Josef |title=Chapter Five. The 'Accursed' And The 'Adventurer': Alexander The Great In Iranian Tradition |date=2011-01-01 |work=A Companion to Alexander Literature in the Middle Ages |pages=113–132 |url=https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004211933/Bej.9789004183452.i-410_006.xml |access-date=2024-03-11 |publisher=Brill |language=en |doi=10.1163/ej.9789004183452.i-410.56 |isbn=978-90-04-21193-3|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name=":14">{{Cite book |last=Casari |first=Mario |title=Persian narrative poetry in the classical era, 800-1500: romantic and didactic genres |date=2023 |publisher=I.B. Tauris |isbn=978-1-78673-664-2 |editor-last=Ashtiany |editor-first=Mohsen |series=A history of Persian literature / founding editor - Ehsan Yarshater |location=London New York Oxford New Delhi Sydney |pages=443–461 |chapter=The Alexander Legend in Persian Literature}}</ref> After the ''Shahnameh'' introduced the Alexander Romance tradition into Persian, the genre would become popular and numerous Alexander legends would be composed in the language, with the most significant works owing much to the ''Shahnameh''. These include the anonymous ''[[Iskandarnameh]]'', the [[Iskandarnameh (Nizami)|''Iskandarnameh'' of Nizami]], the ''[[Ayina-i Iskandari (Amir Khusrau)|Ayina-i Iskandari]]'' of [[Amir Khusrau]], and others.<ref name=":12">{{Cite book |last=Casari |first=Mario |title=Persian narrative poetry in the classical era, 800-1500: romantic and didactic genres |date=2023 |publisher=I.B. Tauris |isbn=978-1-78673-664-2 |editor-last=Ashtiany |editor-first=Mohsen |series=A history of Persian literature / founding editor - Ehsan Yarshater |location=London New York Oxford New Delhi Sydney |pages=491–504 |chapter=The Alexander Legend in Persian Literature}}</ref>