علی نامه (تصحیح) / / by سراینده ای متخلص به ربیع ; (Edited by) ابوالفضل غلامی/ رضا بیات.ʿAlī-nāma : : Manẓūma-ī kuhan / / by Rabīʿ ; (Edited by) Riḍā Bayāt, Abū al-Faḍl Ghulāmī.

• VerfasserIn: Rabīʿ,
• TeilnehmendeR: غلامی ، ابوالفضل, / Ghulāmī, Abū al-Faḍl,; بیات ، رضا, / Bayāt, Riḍā,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, [2019]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English; Persian
• 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 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.