This is the first major study devoted to the early Arabic reception and adaption of the figure of
Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary Egyptian sage to whom were ascribed numerous works …

Migrating Tales situates the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, in its cultural context by reading
several rich rabbinic stories against the background of Greek, Syriac, Arabic, Persian, and …

Historians and their readers have always been fascinated by the history of the great
empires, and especially by their emergence and disappearance. In the case of the …

No figure has had a more global impact than Alexander the Great, whose legends have
encircled the globe and been translated into a dizzying multitude of languages, from Indo …

Historiographical texts are here read as literary compositions of their time, providing us with
various elements of the process of identity construction or reconstruction. The first West …

'They did not allow Alexander the Water; by struggling or by gold, that is impossible to
achieve.'Hafez's reference to Alexander's failure to discover the water of Life for himself is …

The tales of Alexander the Great originate in the Greek Alexander Romance, or Pseudo-
Callisthenes, and represent an impressive instance of dynamic cultural exchange. 1 They …

Ḥikam wa Maḥāsin al-kilam) on the life of Alexander the Great at the end of the nineteenth
century, not much has been made of this important source of information on the Arabic …

The Syriac Alexander Romance (ar) is the most distinguished part of the Syriacandindeedof
alleasternliterarytraditionof AlexandertheGreat. Anotable peculiarityof …

The funerary inscription of Maris Casiti f (ilius) from Mainz (AÉ 1959.188; 1967.339) gives
evidence of several Oriental names. The auxiliary mounted archer Maris, as well as his …