The “Book of Honor”, from Nizami's Book of Alexander the Great. Nizami Ganjavi (d. 1209), the greatest of the medieval Muslim Persian poets, wrote a set of five epic romantic poems, including the two-part Book of Alexander: the Book of Honor, depicting Alexander's education and early military campaigns, and the Book of Fortune, relating his later development from a warrior to a philosopher and prophet. The manuscript, from 17th c. India, is opened to a scene of the young Alexander, cast with a halo, studying with his teacher, Aristotle (wearing white).