Abdi-bek Shirazi. Ayin-i Iskandari, 1977. In Persian (Arabic script)

[Preface and text preparation: A.G. Ragimov]
Abdi-bek Shirazi. Ayin-i Iskandari (The Customs/Law of Alexander).
Moscow: Nauka, 1977.
8, XII, 144 p. in old Arabic script.
Hardcover. Print run: 6,700 copies.

This is a scholarly publication of the Persian poem "Ayin-i Iskandari" (The Customs of Alexander) by Abdi-bek Shirazi, a 15th-century poet from Shiraz. The work belongs to the classical Persian genre of Iskandarnamas (Alexander romances), which reimagines the exploits of Alexander the Great within an Islamic and Persianate cultural framework. The edition was meticulously prepared by A.G. Ragimov, a Soviet orientalist, and published under the joint auspices of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Institute of the Peoples of the Near and Middle East of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR. It features artistic design by M.R. Ibragimov. Published in Moscow in 1977, this volume represents a significant achievement of Soviet philology and textual criticism, making an important work of Persian literature accessible in a facsimile-like edition printed in the original Arabo-Persian script, complete with a scholarly preface and apparatus.