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Alexander Romance and Bulūqiyā (1)

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04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry


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Alexander Romance
Bulūqiyā
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An Arabic version of the Alexander Romance, preserved in a manuscript in Spain, contains passages of narrative which are found almost word for word in the Tale of Bulūqiyā in the Arabian Nights, a story which is recognizable as a distant descendant in Arabic of the Gilgameš Epic. The name of its hero seems to be an abbreviated form of ‘Bilgameš’, which is a known variant of ‘Gilgameš’.

Source (list of abbreviations)
MS 5379 (Biblioteca Nationale Madrid)

Bibliography

Dalley 1994, 245-246Dalley, Stephanie. “The Tale of Buluqiya and the Alexander Romance in Jewish and Sufi Mystical Circles.” In: J. C. Reeves (ed.). Tracing the Threads. Studies in the Vitality of Jewish Pseudepigrapha. Atlanta: Scholars Press 1994, 239-269.
Dalley 1998, 171Dalley, Stephanie. “The Sassanian Period and Early Islam.” In: S. Dalley (ed.). The Legacy of Mesopotamia. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1998, 163-181.

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Cf. Atrahasis and al-Khiḍr (1)
Cf. Sufi connection with Gilgameš (1)
Cf. Tale of Bulūqiyā (1)
Cf. Tale of Bulūqiyā (2)
Cf. Tale of Bulūqiyā (3)

Stephanie Dalley


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