displacement of the city of women in the fictional eskandarnameh to present alexander as an iranian character

ever since alexander emerged in the history of iran, his being greek or iranian has been a matter of dispute. the subject has later entered the discussions over alexander’s identity as ruler, governor, explorer, adventurer, etc. even these days disputes over his existence or his territory exist. a purely historical study on the subject should be based on documents. yet since a great part of written materials on alexander are ancient persian stories, to enrich our findings on alexander and study the subject from different points of view, we need to pay attention to such texts. of these texts one may refer to the story of eskandarnameh ,made up between the sixth and eighth centuries which, through displacing an old narrative of the city of women, intends to connect alexander to the ideal world of fairies and thus present him as an iranian character.