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Situated within some of the oldest spaces on the Victoria and Albert Museum’s estate in Kensington, four new gallery spaces and a fifth reworked gallery
a href= http://vam.ac.uk target= _blank V&A Photography Centre /a has opened the largest suite of galleries in the UK dedicated to a permanent pho
The fifth poem of Nizami’s Khamsah (Quintet), Iskandarnamah, is a two-part account of the life of Alexander the Great or Iskandar as he is called in Persian. Nizami’s portrayal of Alexander as a philosopher-king would have appealed to Akbar, who promoted himself as a just and tolerant ruler.
Even in Firdawsi’s ‘Shahnamah’, he is described by Ardshir, founder of the Sasanian dynasty, as ‘the evil-minded tyrant’.
In his epic the Shahnamah (Book of Kings), the poet Firdawsi (940–1019 or 1025) vividly describes how Alexander (Iskandar/Sikandar) came upon the Persian emperor Darius (Dara) as he fled north after the battle of Gaugamela in 331 BC. Cradling the mortally wounded Dara on his knees, Iskandar promised “Your word...