Author is known as Ahmedi; Is a mystic epic poem.

Canto I

Discussion with Greek Sages

Canto II

Darius (1) and Alexander prepare for war but Darius is murdered before the war can start.

Canto III

An Indian ambassador arrives.

Canto IV

Alexander goes to India and starts war with Porus (2)

Canto V

The war continues and Alexander kills a dragon.

Canto VI

Alexander goes to China.
Canto VII

Alexander sets out for Zanguebar and reaches the mountain of snakes; from thence he proceeds to the island of Quackquack (3), so called because the fruits on the trees of the island are birds which, by an instinctive intelligence, cry out Quack, quack, whenever a traveler visits the place. And from thence he sails to the island of Atvarib (4), the inhabitants of which have dogs’ heads. The poet minutely describes the crab and the musk-deer, and furnishes a reason for the phosphorescence of organised bodies, and especially of dead fish. He gives an account of men who haves fishes heads, and fish who have human heads, and describes a singular animal which swims by day, and flies by night. He goes to Java; he builds the city of Serendib (5), and then sails to the island of Sulamit; proceeds from thence to the Valley of Diamonds, and then sails up the Indian Archipelago, until he reaches a great Mountain of Wonders, in the centre of which is a crystal palace, protected by forty eight talismans. Finally, he goes again to China, and arriving at Shadkiam (6), the capital, which contains a dense population of magicians, genii, and philosophers, he enters into a discussion with the latter on the essential properties of bodies, which is prolonged to the close of the canto.

Canto VIII

He goes to Cashmere and constructs the wall of Gog and Magog (7) ...................................

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Canto XII

With his army he reaches the land of Darkness, where his soldiers get scattered and perish in the wilderness. Finally he himself lays dyeing in a tent.

The last illustration shows his mother weeping. 

(in Osmanlica- Ottoman language)

Verses 2825-7

From Rum to Zeng big profits are made

Embroideries made in China sought for in Rum

Musk arriving from the sea comes in and goes

Brocade filled with pearls from China is plentiful

Made in Rum brought to Hindustan

In the seas of the Hindi and Zengi clime