{"product_id":"alexander-stories-in-ajami-turkic-hendrik-boeschoten-9783447057257","title":"Alexander Stories in Ajami Turkic","description":"The book contains an edition of a collection of six stories about Alexander Dhulqarnain found in a manuscript kept in St. Petersburg, together with a translation, analyses of the language and the literary content, and indices. The stories must have been written in some variety of Western Oghuz Turkic in Iran, but the manuscript itself is a rather late copy, produced in a Kipchak-Chaghatay environment (presumably Kazan). The content of the stories are of the adventurous kind, and betray a background of more or less popular performances by storytellers. One striking feature is the interest taken in mechanical contraptions, such as automata for the purpose of the defence of castles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hendrik Boeschoten\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3447057254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783447057257\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harrassowitz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 98\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Hendrik Boeschoten","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48799040372991,"sku":"9783447057257","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/alexander-stories-in-ajami-turkic-hendrik-boeschoten-9783447057257","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}