‏على نامه :‏ : ‏منظومه اى کهن، سروده به سال ٤٨٢ ه. /‏ / ‏از سراىنده اى متخلص به ربىع ؛ با مقدمۀ محمد رضا شفىعى کدکنى، محمود امىد سالار.ʿAlī-nāma : : Manẓūma-ī kuhan (facsimile) / / by Rabīʿ ; (Edited by) Muḥammad-Riḍā Shafīʿī Kadkanī, Maḥmūd Umīd-Sālār.

• VerfasserIn: Rabīʿ,
• TeilnehmendeR: Umīd-Sālār, Maḥmūd,; Kadkanī, Muḥammad-Riḍā Shafīʿī,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, [2019]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English; Persian
• Series: Mīrās̲-i Maktūb ; 184; Mīrās̲-i Maktūb. Majmūʻah-i nuskhahʹbargardān ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Until the discovery of the Persian ʿAlī-nāma , Ibn Ḥusām's Khawarān-nāma (completed in 830/1427) was believed to be the oldest Persian epic poem involving the often wondrous exploits of ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib and the beginnings of Shīʿism. The Khawarān-nāma takes its inspiration from Firdawsī's Shāh-nāma (completed in 400/1010), but then adapted to fit the Shīʿī theme, with ʿAlī and his companions often taking the place of Rustam and other heroes. With this facsimile edition of the ʿAlī-nāma we now have access to a much older poem on this subject. Composed by someone using the alias of Rabīʿ, it was completed in 482/1089 in Khurāsān, most probably in or near the town of Sabzawār, just seventy years after the completion of Firdawsī's Shāh-nāma . The text is important because long before others, it acknowledges the heroes of the Shāh-nāma , some of whom were actually written into the script.